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Remove the last character from the string JavaScript

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Use the slice() method to remove the last character from the string JavaScript. You must pass two arguments: the start and end indexes.

str.slice(0, -1)

Use slice(0, -1), it is equivalent to slice(0, str.length - 1).

Remove last character JavaScript

Simple example code.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<body>
  <script>
    let str = "12345.00";
    console.log(str);

    var res  = str.slice(0, -1); 
    console.log(res);
  </script>
</body>
</html>

Output:

Remove the last character from the string JavaScript

Alternative Methods

Other methods available are substring() and replace(). substring() does not have negative indexing, so be sure to use str.length - 1 when removing the last character from the string.

let str = 'abc.com';
str.substring(0, str.length - 1); // acb.co
str.substr(0, str.length - 1); // abc.co

replace() takes either a string or a regular expression as its pattern argument.

let str = 'abc.com'; 
str.replace(/.$/, ''); // abc.co

Remove the last character only if the last character is a number. You can use .replace(/\d$/, '') as shown below.

let str = 'abc.io0';
str.replace(/\d$/, ''); // abc.io

Do comment if you have any doubts or suggestions on this Js remove char topic.

Note: The All JS Examples codes are tested on the Firefox browser and the Chrome browser.

OS: Windows 10

Code: HTML 5 Version

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