js find last occurrence in string 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 last index of

const str = "Users/Edit/12345";
let idx = str.lastIndexOf("/"); // returns 10
idx = str.lastIndexOf("x"); // returns -1

idx = str.lastIndexOf("Edit") // returns 6
idx = str.lastIndexOf("edit") // returns -1 -- case sensitive

// add "from" parameter
// the search happens backwards, starting at the provided from parameter
idx = str.lastIndexOf("s"); // returns 4
idx = str.lastIndexOf("s", 3); // returns 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];
}

Example 4: find the last occurrence of a character in a string javascript

str.lastIndexOf(searchValue[, fromIndex])