get_text_item: Extract portion of a string defined be a separator
In arestrom/remisc: Some simple utility functions for personal use

Extract portions of a string as defined by a separator such as a comma or whitespace. For example, in a vector strings of first and last name, such as "Bob Smith", the first name can be extracted as item number one and last name as item number two.

1	get_text_item(x, item = 2, sep = " ")

`x`	A vector of character strings
`item`	The relative position of the item to extract
`sep`	The separator used to split the string

# Define a vector of names that need to be broken out into columns
fish_names = tibble::tibble(names = c("Coho Salmon, Silvers",
                                      "Chinook Salmon, Kings"))

# Pull out the common name
fish_names$common_name = get_text_item(fish_names$names,
                                       item = 1, sep = " ")

# Pull out the alternate common name
fish_names$alternate_name = get_text_item(fish_names$names,
                                          item = 2, sep = ",")

# Trim whitespace from alternate_name
fish_names$alternate_name = trimws(fish_names$alternate_name, "b")