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reverse string manipulation

How to get the reverse parsing work.

I have a strings like
aqw-wef-324-err.log
wefd-324r-err.log
efrt-4rfr.log
.
.
i want to have string upto last hypen.

aqw-wef-324
wefd-324r
efrt

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$ string=wefd-324r-err.log
$ string2=${string%-*}
$ echo $string2
wefd-324r

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