You may want to wrap that functionality up into a filter, this way you don't have to put the mySplit function in all of your controllers. For example
angular.module('myModule', [])
.filter('split', function() {
return function(input, splitChar, splitIndex) {
// do some bounds checking here to ensure it has that index
return input.split(splitChar)[splitIndex];
}
});
From here, you can use a filter as you originally intended
{{test | split:',':0}}
{{test | split:',':0}}
More info at http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/filter (thanks ross)
Plunkr @ http://plnkr.co/edit/NA4UeL