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How can we get the last word from a string using JavaScript / jQuery?
In the following scenario the last word is "Collar". The words are separated by "-".
Closed-Flat-Knit-Collar
Flat-Woven-Collar
Fabric-Collar
Fabric-Closed-Flat-Knit-Collar
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Using the split() Method As we have to get the last word of a string, we'll be using space (” “) as a regular expression to split the string. This will return “day”, which is the last word of our input string.
String charAt() Method Alternatively, to get the last character of a string, we can call the charAt() method on the string, passing the last character index as an argument. For example, str. charAt(str. length - 1) returns a new string containing the last character of str .
To remove the last character from a string in JavaScript, you should use the slice() method. It takes two arguments: the start index and the end index. slice() supports negative indexing, which means that slice(0, -1) is equivalent to slice(0, str. length - 1) .
Why must everything be in jQuery?
var lastword = yourString.split("-").pop();
This will split your string into the individual components (for exampe, Closed, Flat, Knit, Collar). Then it will pop off the last element of the array and return it. In all of the examples you gave, this is Collar.
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var word = str.split("-").pop();
I see there's already several .split().pop() answers and a substring() answer, so for completness, here's a Regular Expression approach :
var lastWord = str.match(/\w+$/)[0];
DEMO
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