var origString = 'Happy Dance7';
var trimmedString = origString.substring(0, origString.length-1);
console.log(trimmedString);
// 'Happy Dance'Remove the Last Character from a String
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There’s a way shorter way :-)
Or, you could use slice();
var origString = ‘Happy Dance7’;
var trimmedString = origString.slice(0,-1);
console.log(trimmedString);
Shorter code is better. Thanks to jQuery.
‘slice’ isn’t jQuery