Need to remove specific inputed characters when they search

[aperales10]

This is what I'm trying to do:
A visitor enters CF52242-10 in the search field,
I want to explode that so that the search only gives me what is before the hyphen/dash
e.g. result would be CF52242.
Can someone point me in the right direction or help me out with the script, I've searched the php site and it is not specific as to this example.

Appreciate the help!

Thanks in advance,
Armando

[gfoot]

You can use [man]preg_replace[/man] to replace a hyphen followed by any number of characters, like this:

    $newstring = preg_replace("/-.*/","",$oldstring);

"Regular" (actually rather irregular) expression syntax is a bit scary to look at initially but it's something you get used to.

[aperales10]

That was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a mil gfoot!
works perfectly 🙂

-Armando