Left of a character in a string in vb.net

Question

say if I have a string 010451-09F2

How to I get left of - from the above string in vb.net

I want 010451

The left fu

Answer 1

Sorry not sure on the vb syntax, but the c# is

 string mystring ="010451-09F2";
 string whatIwant = mystring.Split('-')[0];