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

The second argument of .split() specifies how many splits to do:

'one two three four five'.split(' ', 2)

And the output:

>> ruby -e "print 'one two three four five'.split(' ', 2)"
>> ["one", "two three four five"]