It is treating the period as a wildcard. One thing you can do is replace the
period with the characters ZZ. Do the split. Then replace ZZ with a period.

"Tyrone" wrote:

hello,
I have a list of datanames with one or more extensions. is it possible to
perform one split only? I should look like:

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hello|abc.def

instead of:

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hello|abc|def

thanks in advance.
greetings