Splitting a space separated list

Question

This is a common task I'm facing: splitting a space separated list into a head element and an array containing the tail elements. For example, given this string:

the quick brown fox

We want:

"the"
["quick","brown","fox"]

.. in two different variables. The first variable should be a string, and the second an array. I'm looking for an elegant way to do this (preferably in Java).

Answer 1

For certain values of elegant:

String input = "The quick brown fox";
String[] elements = input.split(" ");
String first = elements[0];
String[] trailing = Arrays.copyOfRange(elements,1,elements.length);

I can't think of a way to do it with less code...