check last letter in string javascript code example

Example 1: javascript get last character in string

var hello = "Hello World";
var lastCharOfHello=hello.slice(-1);//d

Example 2: javascript remove last character from string

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

Example 3: get last char javascript

var lastChar = myString[myString.length -1];

Example 4: 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];
}