Question

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

Twitter is providing full names in a single string.

Examples

1. "Froederick Frankenstien"
2. "Ludwig Van Beethoven"
3. "Anne Frank"

I’d like to split the string into only two vars (first and last) based on the first " " (space) found.

Example    First Name    Last Name 
1          Froederick    Frankenstein
2          Ludwig        Van Beethoven
3          Anne          Frank

I’m familiar with String#split but I’m not sure how to only split once. The most Ruby-Way™ (elegant) answer will be accepted.

Answer 1

String#split takes a second argument, the limit.

str.split(' ', 2)

should do the trick.