endsWith in JavaScript

Question

How can I check if a string ends with a particular character in JavaScript?

Example: I have a string

var str = \"mystring#\";

I wa

Answer 1

This is the implementation of endsWith:

String.prototype.endsWith = function (str) {
  return (this.length >= str.length) && (this.substr(this.length - str.length) === str);
}

Answer 2

if( ("mystring#").substr(-1,1) == '#' )

-- Or --

if( ("mystring#").match(/#$/) )

Answer 3

String.prototype.endsWith = function(str) 
{return (this.match(str+"$")==str)}

String.prototype.startsWith = function(str) 
{return (this.match("^"+str)==str)}

I hope this helps

var myStr = “  Earth is a beautiful planet  ”;
var myStr2 = myStr.trim();  
//==“Earth is a beautiful planet”;

if (myStr2.startsWith(“Earth”)) // returns TRUE

if (myStr2.endsWith(“planet”)) // returns TRUE

if (myStr.startsWith(“Earth”)) 
// returns FALSE due to the leading spaces…

if (myStr.endsWith(“planet”)) 
// returns FALSE due to trailing spaces…

the traditional way

function strStartsWith(str, prefix) {
    return str.indexOf(prefix) === 0;
}

function strEndsWith(str, suffix) {
    return str.match(suffix+"$")==suffix;
}

Answer 4

A way to future proof and/or prevent overwriting of existing prototype would be test check to see if it has already been added to the String prototype. Here's my take on the non-regex highly rated version.

if (typeof String.endsWith !== 'function') {
    String.prototype.endsWith = function (suffix) {
        return this.indexOf(suffix, this.length - suffix.length) !== -1;
    };
}

Answer 5

if(typeof String.prototype.endsWith !== "function") {
    /**
     * String.prototype.endsWith
     * Check if given string locate at the end of current string
     * @param {string} substring substring to locate in the current string.
     * @param {number=} position end the endsWith check at that position
     * @return {boolean}
     *
     * @edition ECMA-262 6th Edition, 15.5.4.23
     */
    String.prototype.endsWith = function(substring, position) {
        substring = String(substring);

        var subLen = substring.length | 0;

        if( !subLen )return true;//Empty string

        var strLen = this.length;

        if( position === void 0 )position = strLen;
        else position = position | 0;

        if( position < 1 )return false;

        var fromIndex = (strLen < position ? strLen : position) - subLen;

        return (fromIndex >= 0 || subLen === -fromIndex)
            && (
                position === 0
                // if position not at the and of the string, we can optimise search substring
                //  by checking first symbol of substring exists in search position in current string
                || this.charCodeAt(fromIndex) === substring.charCodeAt(0)//fast false
            )
            && this.indexOf(substring, fromIndex) === fromIndex
        ;
    };
}

Benefits:

• This version is not just re-using indexOf.
• Greatest performance on long strings. Here is a speed test http://jsperf.com/starts-ends-with/4
• Fully compatible with ecmascript specification. It passes the tests

Answer 6

This version avoids creating a substring, and doesn't use regular expressions (some regex answers here will work; others are broken):

String.prototype.endsWith = function(str)
{
    var lastIndex = this.lastIndexOf(str);
    return (lastIndex !== -1) && (lastIndex + str.length === this.length);
}

If performance is important to you, it would be worth testing whether lastIndexOf is actually faster than creating a substring or not. (It may well depend on the JS engine you're using...) It may well be faster in the matching case, and when the string is small - but when the string is huge it needs to look back through the whole thing even though we don't really care :(

For checking a single character, finding the length and then using charAt is probably the best way.