wix-incubator/greedy-split

splits string with limit the right way

greedy-split

splits string with limit the right way.

install:

$ npm install --save greedy-split

use:

const greedySplit = require('greedy-split');

console.log('1|2|3|4'.split('|', 3)); //logs ['1', '2', '3']
console.log(greedySplit('1|2|3|4', '|', 3)); //logs ['1', '2', '3|4']

console.log('1|2|3|4'.split(/\|+/, 3)); //logs ['1', '2', '3']
console.log(greedySplit('1|2||3|4', /\|+/, 3)); //logs ['1', '2', '3|4']

that is all.