cutting trailing characters out of a string

Hello C#ers

I am trying to create a parser in asp.net c# and have all the tags split into an array however.... the ending of the tags have code that I need to strip and I dont know how to do this. I need to cut out all the text that follows '>'.

right now I have something like
a[0] = body>text asdasd
a[1] = form>sadasdasdasdas

how do I just go delete all including > and after.

so that its
a[0] = body
a[1] = form



Thanks,

Riv