String split with conditions in R

Question

I have this mystring with the delimiter _. The condition here is if there are two or more delimiters, I want to split at the second delimiter and if th

Answer 1

With the stringr package:

str_extract(mystring, '.*?_.*?(?=_)|^.*?_.*(?=\\.ReCal)')
[1] "MODY_60.2" "MODY_116.21" "MODY_116.3" "MODY_116.4"

It also works with more than two delimiters.