title: Split two words into variables
body: <p>I have this date/2 word parsed from the database randomly:</p>
  
  <pre><code>JAN 2012
  FEB 2013
  MAR 2014 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>etc.</p>
  
  <p>I want to make the month in variable <strong>a</strong> and the year in variable <strong>b</strong>.
  The date is parsed in a span as such:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;span class="rt_item"&gt;DEC 2012&lt;/span&gt;
  </code></pre>