Split a string only the at the first n occurrences of a delimiter

Question

I\'d like to split a string only the at the first n occurrences of a delimiter. I know, I could add them together using a loop, but isn\'t there a more straight forward appr

Answer 1

In my case I was trying to parse git grep stdout. So I had a {filename}:{linenumber}:{context}. I don't like splitting and then joining. We should be able to parse the string one time. You could simply step through each letter and split on the first two colons. A quicker way to do it out of the box is by using the match method and regex.

Hence,

txt.match(/(.+):(\d+):(.*)/)

Works great