Help me plzzz... how i remove after "-" in as3

[fzl_rshd]

example:

trace("mynameis-daffa");
// i wanna remove after "-string" to
trace("mynameis");

[kglad]

use split("-").join()[0]

[fzl_rshd]

no, i wanna remove after "-" to end line, so when typing "en-US" is changed to "en" on output code

[kglad]

and i gave the code to do that.