Need to split a string by first occurence of specific character like '-' in 'this-is-test-data'. so what i want is when i do split it will return 'this' in zero index and rest in first index.
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Use String.split(regExp, limit) method:
Documentation says
Returns a list that contains each substring of the String that is terminated by either the regular expression regExp or the end of the String.
Example:
String str = 'this-is-test-data';
List<String> res = str.split('-', 2);
System.debug(res);
Result:
15:16:58:001 USER_DEBUG [3]|DEBUG|(this, is-test-data)
answered Jun 9, 2017 at 12:17
Oleksandr Berehovskyi
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One option is to use the substringBefore and substringAfter methods.
String delimiter = '-';
String input = 'this-is-test-data';
String firstSplit = input.substringBefore(delimiter); // 'this'
String lastSplits = input.substringAfter(delimiter); // 'is-test-data'