Regular Expression relace Myname _Mysurname with "" in PHP

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I need a regular expression which replaces a string like this

"Myname _MySurename"  with "Myname"

that means i just need Myname, so _MySurename should be cut.

i tryed something like "/_*/" but that replaces just the _ (underscore) how can i do that in PHP ?

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