Split on first occurrence of character

Question

I've checkhours string like shown below and I want to split by first occurrence of '-' character, however, I'm not getting the correct result as shown in below code. Also, I want to make an array like 11:30 AM – 4:00 PM 1st part and 5:00 PM – 12:00 AM 2nd part?

          console.log("checkHours", checkHours);
          let [start, end] = checkHours.split(' – ');

          current log:
          checkHours 11:30 AM – 4:00 PM, 5:00 PM – 12:00 AM
          start, end 11:30 AM 4:00 PM, 5:00 PM

That is, I want the result to be like-> first element in array should be 11:30 AM – 4:00 PM and second element in array 5:00 PM – 12:00 AM. Then I can split on first element of array 11:30 AM – 4:00 PM by '-' which gives result start = 11:30 AM and end = 4:00 PM.

Answer 1

Option #1
join back the other splitted elements:

 checkHours = "11:30 AM – 4:00 PM, 5:00 PM – 12:00 AM"; console.log("checkHours", checkHours); let [start, ...end] = checkHours.split(' – '); end = end.join(" - "); console.log(start); console.log(end); 

Option #2: Don't use split

 checkHours = "11:30 AM – 4:00 PM, 5:00 PM – 12:00 AM"; console.log("checkHours", checkHours); let start, end; if (checkHours.indexOf(" – ") > -1) { [start, end] = [checkHours.slice(0, checkHours.indexOf(" – ")), checkHours.slice(checkHours.indexOf(" – ") + 3)]; } console.log(start); console.log(end);