Crystal reports: is there a way to regex in crystal reports?

Question

I have a crystal report function which requires me to trim off characters which start with a \"-\" and delete the rest following the the \"-\" (dash).

For example,

Answer 1

Crystal might not have regex but it certainly has all the basic string functions

Something like this should do it for you (not tested):

Left({OrderNumber}, InStr({OrderNumber}, "-") - 1)