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JavaScript: Split string at first space

I want  "var firstBit" to contain everything before the first space in "str" and "var lastBit" to contain everything after the first space in "str".
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Use:

<script type="text/javascript">
var PartialResult="";
var str="Hagay goes home soon";
var SplitResult = str.split(" ");
for(i = 0; i < SplitResult.length; i++){
document.write(SplitResult[i]+"<br />");
}
var firstBit=SplitResult[0];
var EndingLength=firstBit.length;
lastBit=str.substring(EndingLength);
</script>