// Get the last word of a string.
let str = "What I hate most in the world is fanaticism.";
// 1) The slice() method: without Considering the punctuation marks
str.slice(str.lastIndexOf(' ')); // => 'fanaticism.'
// 2) the spit() method():
let arr = str.split(' ');
arr[arr.length - 1]; // => 'fanaticism.'
// Considering the punctuation marks at the end of the string
str.match(/(w+)W*$/)[1]; // => 'fanaticism'
String test = "This is a sentence";
String lastWord = test.substring(test.lastIndexOf(" ")+1);
function test(words) {
var n = words.split(" ");
return n[n.length - 1];
}
'abc'.slice(-2);
// To get the last "Word" of a string use the following code :
let string = 'I am a string'
let splitString = string.split(' ')
let lastWord = splitString[splitString.length - 1]
console.log(lastWord)
/*
Explanation : Here we just split the string whenever there is a space and we get an array. After that we simply use .length -1 to get the last word contained in that array that is also the last word of the string.
*/
// Get last n characters from string
var name = 'Shareek';
var new_str = name.substr(-5); // new_str = 'areek'
str.charAt(str.length-1)
const myString = "linto.yahoo.com.";
const stringLength = myString.length; // this will be 16
console.log('lastChar: ', myString.charAt(stringLength - 1)); // this will be the string
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// strips all punctuation and returns the last word of a string
// hyphens (-) aren't stripped, add the hyphen to the regex to strip it as well
function lastWord(words) {
let n = words.replace(/[[]?.,/#!$%^&*;:{}=|_~()]/g, "").split(" ");
return n[n.length - 1];
}