how to remove the last word in the string using JavaScript

Question

I would like to know how can I remove the last word in the string using JavaScript?

For example, the string is \"I want to remove the last word.\"

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Answer 1

You can do a simple regular expression like so:

"I want to remove the last word.".replace(/\w+[.!?]?$/, '')
>>> "I want to remove the last"

Finding the last index for " " is probably faster though. This is just less code.