What is the best way to extract the first word from a string in Java?

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The second parameter of the split method is optional, and if specified will split the target string only N times.

For example:

String mystring = "the quick brown fox";
String arr[] = mystring.split(" ", 2);

String firstWord = arr[0];   //the
String theRest = arr[1];     //quick brown fox

Alternatively you could use the substring method of String.

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