diff --git a/src/lib.zig b/src/lib.zig
index 8a26c8d76e4eef1dc0a027ffb542c45b2d95917f..a9881c735d52514a36f718dbcb8c816ee9572cc0 100644
--- a/src/lib.zig
+++ b/src/lib.zig
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ pub const from_hex = @import("./from_hex.zig").from_hex;
 pub const Pointee = @import("./Pointee.zig").Pointee;
 pub const compareFnSlice = @import("./compareFnSlice.zig").compareFnSlice;
 pub const sumLen = @import("./sumLen.zig").sumLen;
+pub const splitScalarN = @import("./splitScalarN.zig").splitScalarN;
 
 test {
     _ = @import("reduceNumber.zig");
@@ -163,4 +164,5 @@ test {
     _ = @import("Pointee.zig");
     _ = @import("compareFnSlice.zig");
     _ = @import("sumLen.zig");
+    _ = @import("splitScalarN.zig");
 }
diff --git a/src/splitScalarN.zig b/src/splitScalarN.zig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..14fb7f0d20d7e70ca29b8971834f62d64fb28657
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/splitScalarN.zig
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+const std = @import("std");
+const extras = @import("./lib.zig");
+
+pub fn splitScalarN(comptime T: type, buffer: []const T, delimiter: T, comptime N: usize) ?[N][]const T {
+    var result: [N][]const T = undefined;
+    var iter = std.mem.splitScalar(T, buffer, delimiter);
+    for (&result) |*x| x.* = iter.next() orelse return null;
+    if (iter.next() != null) return null;
+    return result;
+}
+
+test {
+    try std.testing.expectEqualDeep(&[_][]const u8{ "abc", "def" }, &splitScalarN(u8, "abc.def", '.', 2).?);
+}
+test {
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(null, splitScalarN(u8, "abcdef", '.', 2));
+}
+test {
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(null, splitScalarN(u8, "ab.cd.ef", '.', 2));
+}