How to delete last character from a string using jQuery?

Question

How to delete last character from a string for instance in 123-4- when I delete 4 it should display 123- using jQuery

Answer 1

Why use jQuery for this?

str = "123-4"; 
alert(str.substring(0,str.length - 1));

Of course if you must:

Substr w/ jQuery:

//example test element
 $(document.createElement('div'))
    .addClass('test')
    .text('123-4')
    .appendTo('body');

//using substring with the jQuery function html
alert($('.test').html().substring(0,$('.test').html().length - 1));

Answer 2

@skajfes and @GolezTrol provided the best methods to use. Personally, I prefer using "slice()". It's less code, and you don't have to know how long a string is. Just use:

//-----------------------------------------
// @param begin  Required. The index where 
//               to begin the extraction. 
//               1st character is at index 0
//
// @param end    Optional. Where to end the
//               extraction. If omitted, 
//               slice() selects all 
//               characters from the begin 
//               position to the end of 
//               the string.
var str = '123-4';
alert(str.slice(0, -1));

Answer 3

This page comes first when you search on Google "remove last character jquery"

Although all previous answers are correct, somehow did not helped me to find what I wanted in a quick and easy way.

I feel something is missing. Apologies if i'm duplicating

jQuery

$('selector').each(function(){ 
  var text = $(this).html();
  text = text.substring(0, text.length-1);
  $(this).html(text);
});

or

$('selector').each(function(){ 
  var text = $(this).html();
  text = text.slice(0,-1);
  $(this).html(text);
})

Answer 4

You can do it with plain JavaScript:

alert('123-4-'.substr(0, 4)); // outputs "123-"

This returns the first four characters of your string (adjust 4 to suit your needs).

Answer 5

You can also try this in plain javascript

"1234".slice(0,-1)

the negative second parameter is an offset from the last character, so you can use -2 to remove last 2 characters etc