delete last two characters of string code example

Example 1: string remove last character

public static String removeLastCharacter(String str) {   
	String result = null;   
    if ((str != null) && (str.length() > 0)) {      
    	result = str.substring(0, str.length() - 1);   
    }   
    
    return result;
}

Example 2: remove last character from string

public String method(String str) {
    if (str.charAt(str.length()-1)=='x'){
        str = str.replace(str.substring(str.length()-1), "");
        return str;
    } else{
        return str;
    }
}