Split a string by the first hyphen in the string

Question

I know the split routine of JavaScript. I've a string in this pattern Employee - John Smith - Director.

I want to split it on the base of first hyphen using JavaScript and it'll seem like:

Source: Employee
Sub: John Smith - Director

probable duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4607745/split-string-only-on-first-instance-of-specified-character — Manube, May 14 '15 at 10:33

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 14 '15 at 10:37

3

I would use a regular expression:

b = "Employee - John Smith - Director"
c = b.split(/\s-\s(.*)/g)
c    
["Employee", "John Smith - Director", ""]

So you have in c[0] the first word and in c[1] the rest.

answered May 14 '15 at 10:37

tjati

Why it returns another empty element at the end of the array? – RRGT19 Jul 18 '20 at 16:35

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

2

var str = "Employee - John Smith - Director "  
str.split("-",1)

edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

Community

answered May 14 '15 at 10:31

Ankita

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This returns "Employee " and nothing else. Did you test your code? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/split#Parameters – Kobi May 14 '15 at 10:33
Yes, I'm doing. here is my code var res = str.split(" - ", 1); – User089 May 14 '15 at 10:36

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 14 '15 at 10:56

2

you can do like

var str = "Employee - John Smith - Director "  
var s=str.split("-");
s.shift() ;
s.join("-");
console.log(s);

answered May 14 '15 at 10:56

Roli Agrawal

3 Answers3