How to delete last character in a string in C#?

Question

Building a string for post request in the following way,

  var itemsToAdd = sl.SelProds.ToList();
  if (sl.SelProds.Count() != 0)
  {
      foreach (var item         


        

Answer 1

string str="This is test string.";
str=str.Remove(str.Length-1);

Answer 2

string source;
// source gets initialized
string dest;
if (source.Length > 0)
{
    dest = source.Substring(0, source.Length - 1);
}

Answer 3

Add a StringBuilder extension method.

public static StringBuilder RemoveLast(this StringBuilder sb, string value)
{
    if(sb.Length < 1) return sb;
    sb.Remove(sb.ToString().LastIndexOf(value), value.Length);
    return sb;
}

then use:

yourStringBuilder.RemoveLast(",");

Answer 4

I would just not add it in the first place:

 var sb = new StringBuilder();

 bool first = true;
 foreach (var foo in items) {
    if (first)
        first = false;
    else
        sb.Append('&');

    // for example:
    var escapedValue = System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode(foo);

    sb.Append(key).Append('=').Append(escapedValue);
 }

 var s = sb.ToString();