How to split the string before the 2nd occurrence of a character in Java -

How to split the string before the 2nd occurrence of a character in Java -

i have:

1234 2345 3456 4567

when seek string.split(" ",2), get:

{1234} , {2345 3456 4567}

but need:

{1234},{2345}

i want first 2 elements. how implement in java? in advance. edit:this 1 line of huge dataset.

i assume need first 2 string, following:

string[] res = arrays.copyofrange(string.split(" "), 0, 2);

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