Split string once in javascript?

Question

How can I split a string only once, i.e. make 1|Ceci n'est pas une pipe: | Oui parse to: ["1", "Ceci n'est pas une pipe: | Oui"]?

The limit in split doesn't seem to help...

Answer 1

You'd want to use String.indexOf('|') to get the index of the first occurrence of '|'.

var i = s.indexOf('|');
var splits = [s.slice(0,i), s.slice(i+1)];