Guava splitter with limit from backwards

Question

I would like to split string from backward and omit last two occurrences.

Example

String:

"foo:bar:baz:boo:ban"

And I would like to omit last two :

and get

foo bar baz

Answer 1

List<String> all = Splitter.on(':').splitToList("foo:bar:baz:boo:ban");
List<String> allButLastTwo = all.subList(0, all.size() - 2);