Split a string only the at the first n occurrences of a delimiter

Question

I'd like to split a string only the at the first n occurrences of a delimiter. I know, I could add them together using a loop, but isn't there a more straight forward approach?

var string = 'Split this, but not this';     var result = new Array('Split', 'this,', 'but not this'); 

Answer 1

As per MDN:

string.split(separator, limit); 

Update:

var string = 'Split this, but not this',     arr = string.split(' '),     result = arr.slice(0,2);  result.push(arr.slice(2).join(' ')); // ["Split", "this,", "but not this"] 

Update version 2 (one slice shorter):

var string = 'Split this, but not this',     arr = string.split(' '),     result = arr.splice(0,2);  result.push(arr.join(' ')); // result is ["Split", "this,", "but not this"]