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

Get the location of the dash first (or do it inline), and use that value for the left. This is old school VBA, but it'll be something like this:

Left(YourStringWithTheDash, InStr(YourStringWithTheDash)-1)