How to split to the sentence by first whitespace as delimiter?

chintu has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi I want to split the sentence into two parts by using the first whitespace as delimiter. For example

$string = " How are you?";
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print "How";
print "are you?";
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i tried using split function.

$firstword = split(/^\s+/, $string);

print $firstword;
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It is not working. Can anyone help me? Thanks Chintu.

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Re: How to split to the sentence by first whitespace as delimiter? by japhy (Canon) on Mar 28, 2001 at 20:06 UTC
Use the third argument to `split()`, which says how many parts to split the string into: `($first, $rest) = split ' ', $string, 2;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to split to the sentence by first whitespace as delimiter? by I0 (Priest) on Mar 28, 2001 at 08:50 UTC
`print ($string =~ /(\s)(.?)\1(.)/)[1,2];`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to split to the sentence by first whitespace as delimiter? by I0 (Priest) on Mar 28, 2001 at 08:45 UTC
`($firstword) = $string =~ /(\w+)/;`	[reply] [d/l]