Removing characters from string after a certain point

Im very new to java programming, so if this is a realy stupid question, please forgive me
I want to remove all the characters in my string that are after a certain character, such as a backslash. eg: if i have string called "myString" and it contains this:
109072\We Are The Champions\GEMINI
205305\We Are The Champions\Queen
4416\We Are The Champions\A Knight's Tale
a00022723\We Are The Champions\GREEN DAYi would like to remove all the characters after the first slash (109072*\*We...) leaving the string as "109072"
the main problem is that the number of characters before and after is not the always the same, and there is often letters in the string i want, so it cant be separated by removing all letters and leaving the numbers
Is there any way that this can be done?
Thanks in advance for all help.

You must learn to use the Javadoc for the standard classes. You can download it or reference it on line. For example [http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.html|http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.html].

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