How can I get last characters of a string

Question

I have

var id="ctl03_Tabs1";

Using JavaScript, how might I get the last five characters or last character?

Answer 1

Don't use .substr(). Use the .slice() method instead because it is cross browser compatible (see IE).

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

substr() with negative value not working in IE

Answer 2

You can use the substr() method with a negative starting position to retrieve the last n characters. For example, this gets the last 5:

var lastFiveChars = id.substr(-5);

Answer 3

Getting the last character is easy, as you can treat strings as an array:

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

To get a section of a string, you can use the substr function or the substring function:

id.substr(id.length - 1); //get the last character
id.substr(2);             //get the characters from the 3rd character on
id.substr(2, 1);          //get the 3rd character
id.substr(2, 2);          //get the 3rd and 4th characters

The difference between substr and substring is how the second (optional) parameter is treated. In substr, it's the amount of characters from the index (the first parameter). In substring, it's the index of where the character slicing should end.

Answer 4

Following script shows the result for get last 5 characters and last 1 character in a string using JavaScript:

var testword='ctl03_Tabs1';
var last5=testword.substr(-5); //Get 5 characters
var last1=testword.substr(-1); //Get 1 character

Output :

Tabs1 // Got 5 characters

1 // Got 1 character

Answer 5

const r = '6176958e92d42422203a3c58'; 
r.slice(-4)

results '3c58'

r.slice(-1)

results '8'

Answer 6

One way would be using slice, like follow:

var id="ctl03_Tabs1";
var temp=id.slice(-5);

so the value of temp would be "Tabs1".

Answer 7

Check out the substring function.

To get the last character:

id.substring(id.length - 1, id.length);

Answer 8

The Substr function allows you to use a minus to get the last character.

var string = "hello";
var last = string.substr(-1);

It's very flexible. For example:

// Get 2 characters, 1 character from end
// The first part says how many characters
// to go back and the second says how many
// to go forward. If you don't say how many
// to go forward it will include everything
var string = "hello!";
var lasttwo = string.substr(-3,2);
// = "lo"

Answer 9

There is no need to use substr method to get a single char of a string!

taking the example of Jamon Holmgren we can change substr method and simply specify the array position:

var id = "ctl03_Tabs1";
var lastChar = id[id.length - 1]; // => "1"

Answer 10

Performance

Today 2020.12.31 I perform tests on MacOs HighSierra 10.13.6 on Chrome v87, Safari v13.1.2 and Firefox v84 for chosen solutions for getting last N characters case (last letter case result, for clarity I present in separate answer).

Results

For all browsers

• solution D based on slice is fast or fastest
• solution G is slowest

Details

I perform 2 tests cases:

• when string has 10 chars - you can run it HERE
• when string has 1M chars - you can run it HERE

Below snippet presents solutions A B C D E F G (my)

//https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5873810/how-can-i-get-last-characters-of-a-string

// https://stackoverflow.com/a/30916653/860099
function A(s,n) {
  return s.substr(-n)
}

// https://stackoverflow.com/a/5873890/860099
function B(s,n) {
  return s.substr(s.length - n)
}

// https://stackoverflow.com/a/17489443/860099
function C(s,n) {
  return s.substring(s.length - n, s.length);
}

// https://stackoverflow.com/a/50395190/860099
function D(s,n) {
  return s.slice(-n);
}

// https://stackoverflow.com/a/50374396/860099
function E(s,n) {
  let i = s.length-n;
  let r = '';
  while(i<s.length) r += s.charAt(i++);
  return r
}

// https://stackoverflow.com/a/17489443/860099
function F(s,n) {
  let i = s.length-n;
  let r = '';
  while(i<s.length) r += s[i++];
  return r
}

// my
function G(s,n) {
  return s.match(new RegExp(".{"+n+"}$"));
}

// --------------------
// TEST
// --------------------

[A,B,C,D,E,F,G].map(f=> {  
  console.log(
    f.name + ' ' + f('ctl03_Tabs1',5)
  )})

This shippet only presents functions used in performance tests - it not perform tests itself!

And here are example results for chrome

Answer 11

If you just want the last character or any character at know position you can simply trat string as an array! - strings are iteratorable in javascript -

Var x = "hello_world";
 x[0];                    //h
 x[x.length-1];   //d

Yet if you need more than just one character then use splice is effective

x.slice(-5);      //world

Regarding your example

"rating_element-<?php echo $id?>"

To extract id you can easily use split + pop

Id= inputId.split('rating_element-')[1];

This will return the id, or undefined if no id was after 'rating_element' :)

Answer 12

const id = 'ctl03_Tabs1';
id.at(-1); // Returns '1'

at supports negative integer to count back from the last string character.

---

Docs: String/at

Answer 13

var id="ctl03_Tabs1";
var res = id.charAt(id.length-1);

I found this question and through some research I found this to be the easiest way to get the last character.

As others have mentioned and added for completeness to get the last 5:

var last5 = id.substr(-5);

Answer 14

Performance

Today 2020.12.31 I perform tests on MacOs HighSierra 10.13.6 on Chrome v87, Safari v13.1.2 and Firefox v84 for chosen solutions for getting last character case (last N letters case results, for clarity I present in separate answer).

Results

For all browsers

• solutions D,E,F are quite-fast or fastest
• solutions G,H are slowest

Details

I perform 2 tests cases:

• when string has 10 chars - you can run it HERE
• when string has 1M chars - you can run it HERE

Below snippet presents solutions A B C D E F G (my), H (my)

//https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5873810/how-can-i-get-last-characters-of-a-string

// https://stackoverflow.com/a/30916653/860099
function A(s) {
  return s.substr(-1)
}

// https://stackoverflow.com/a/5873890/860099
function B(s) {
  return s.substr(s.length - 1)
}

// https://stackoverflow.com/a/17489443/860099
function C(s) {
  return s.substring(s.length - 1, s.length);
}

// https://stackoverflow.com/a/50395190/860099
function D(s) {
  return s.slice(-1);
}

// https://stackoverflow.com/a/50374396/860099
function E(s) {  
  return s.charAt(s.length-1);
}

// https://stackoverflow.com/a/17489443/860099
function F(s) {  
  return s[s.length-1];
}

// my
function G(s) {
  return s.match(/.$/);
}

// my
function H(s) {
  return [...s].pop();
}

// --------------------
// TEST
// --------------------

[A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H].map(f=> {  
  console.log(
    f.name + ' ' + f('ctl03_Tabs1')
  )})

This shippet only presents functions used in performance tests - it not perform tests itself!

And here are example results for chrome

Answer 15

You can exploit the string.length feature to get the last characters. See the below example:

let str = "hello";
console.log(str[str.length-1]);
// Output : 'o' i.e. Last character.

Similarly, you can use for loops to reverse the string using the above code.

Answer 16

Assuming you will compare the substring against the end of another string and use the result as a boolean you may extend the String class to accomplish this:

String.prototype.endsWith = function (substring) {
  if(substring.length > this.length) return false;
  return this.substr(this.length - substring.length) === substring;
};

Allowing you to do the following:

var aSentenceToPonder = "This sentence ends with toad"; 
var frogString = "frog";
var toadString = "toad";
aSentenceToPonder.endsWith(frogString) // false
aSentenceToPonder.endsWith(toadString) // true

Answer 17

To get the last character of a string, you can use the split('').pop() function.

const myText = "The last character is J";
const lastCharater = myText.split('').pop();
console.log(lastCharater); // J

It's works because when the split('') function has empty('') as parameter, then each character of the string is changed to an element of an array. Thereby we can use the pop() function which returns the last element of that array, which is, the 'J' character.

Answer 18

I actually have the following problem and this how i solved it by the help of above answer but different approach in extracting id form a an input element.

I have attached input filed with an

id="rating_element-<?php echo $id?>"

And , when that button clicked i want to extract the id(which is the number) or the php ID ($id) only.

So here what i do .

 $('.rating').on('rating.change', function() {
            alert($(this).val());
           // console.log(this.id);
           var static_id_text=("rating_element-").length;       
           var product_id =  this.id.slice(static_id_text);       //get the length in order to deduct from the whole string    
          console.log(product_id );//outputs the last id appended
        });

Answer 19

This one will remove the comma if it is the last character in the string..

var str = $("#ControlId").val();

if(str.substring(str.length-1)==',') {

  var stringWithoutLastComma = str.substring(0,str.length-1);    

}

Answer 20

Last 5

var id="ctl03_Tabs1";
var res = id.charAt(id.length-5)
alert(res);

Last

   
 var id="ctl03_Tabs1";
 var res = id.charAt(id.length-1)
alert(res);

Answer 21

you can use slice

id.slice(-5);

Answer 22

I am sure this will work....

var string1="myfile.pdf"
var esxtenion=string1.substr(string1.length-4)

The value of extension will be ".pdf"

Answer 23

Here 2 examples that will show you always the last character

var id="ctl03_Tabs1";

console.log(id.charAt(id.length - 1)); 

console.log(id[id.length - 1]);