get last character of string in javascript code example

Example 1: javascript remove last character from string

var str = "Hello";
var newString = str.substring(0, str.length - 1); //newString = Hell

Example 2: js get last 4 digits

const id = "ctl03_Tabs1";
console.log(id.slice(id.length - 5)); //Outputs: Tabs1
console.log(id.slice(id.length - 1)); //Outputs: 1

Example 3: javascript get last word in string

// strips all punctuation and returns the last word of a string
// hyphens (-) aren't stripped, add the hyphen to the regex to strip it as well
function lastWord(words) {
    let n = words.replace(/[\[\]?.,\/#!$%\^&\*;:{}=\\|_~()]/g, "").split(" ");
    return n[n.length - 1];
}