How to split string into only two parts with a given character in Ruby?

Question

Our application is mining names from people using Twitter to login.

Twitter is providing full names in a single string.

Examples

1. \"Froeder         


        

Answer 1

"Ludwig Van Beethoven".split(' ', 2)

The second parameter limits the number you want to split it into.

You can also do:

"Ludwig Van Beethoven".partition(" ")