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I want a regular expression for string "Occupational Health and Safety". I want the first word to be split in $1 and the rest of the string in $2. So "Occupational" in one string and "Health and Safety" in the other string. Can you please help me out?

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(\S+)\s+(.*)

puts the first non-whitespace string into $1 and the rest after the splitting whitespace into $2.

match = subject.match(/(\S+)\s+(.*)/);
if (match != null) {
    // first word: match[1]
    // rest of string: match[2]
} else {
    // Match attempt failed
}

If your string can contain newlines, you need (since you're using JavaScript):

(\S+)\s+([\s\S]*)