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

dim s as String = "010451-09F2"
Console.WriteLine(s.Substring(0, s.IndexOf("-")))
Console.WriteLine(s.Split("-")(0))