Splitting a space separated list

Question

This is a common task I\'m facing: splitting a space separated list into a head element and an array containing the tail elements. For example, given this

Answer 1

For certain values of elegant:

String input = "The quick brown fox";
String[] elements = input.split(" ");
String first = elements[0];
String[] trailing = Arrays.copyOfRange(elements,1,elements.length);

I can't think of a way to do it with less code...