last string 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: get last letter of string javascript

// Get last n characters from string
var name = 'Shareek';
var new_str = name.substr(-5); // new_str = 'areek'

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];
}