bash - Print multiple fields in AWK but split one of them based on a different delimiter

Question

Is there an easy way to split a field, get the first element from the said split field AND also print other fields in same awk?

I want to modify below such that is works for $2 not just when it's MCU:123 but also when it's DISNEY:654 such that $2 returns MCU or DISNEY depending on the string. Obviously substr was a bad choice there.

 awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS=""}{print $1,substr($2,1,3)}'

Sample of two fields tab seperated

1  mcu:1234   
2  disney:234 

Expected result tab seperated

1  mcu    
2  disney

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65940555/print-multiple-fields-in-awk-but-split-one-of-them-based-on-a-different-delimite

Answer 1

$ cut -d: -f1 file
1       mcu
2       disney

or if the real file is more convoluted than the example in your question then maybe this will do what you really need:

$ awk -F'[:]' -v OFS='' '{print $1, $2}' file
1       mcu
2       disney