Split string once in javascript?

This isn't a pretty approach, but works with decent efficiency:

var string = "1|Ceci n'est pas une pipe: | Oui";
var components = string.split('|');
alert([components.shift(), components.join('|')]);

Here's a quick demo of it

You'd want to use String.indexOf('|') to get the index of the first occurrence of '|'.

var i = s.indexOf('|');
var splits = [s.slice(0,i), s.slice(i+1)];

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