{"id":16169,"date":"2024-03-15T12:27:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T12:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-remove-the-last-character-in-php\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T00:46:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T00:46:21","slug":"how-to-remove-the-last-character-in-php","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-remove-the-last-character-in-php\/","title":{"rendered":"How to remove the last character in PHP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can use the substr function to remove the last character. The substr function can be used to extract a part of a string.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an example:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-variable\">$str<\/span> = <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"Hello World!\"<\/span>;\r\n<span class=\"hljs-variable\">$newStr<\/span> = <span class=\"hljs-title function_ invoke__\">substr<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-variable\">$str<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-number\">0<\/span>, -<span class=\"hljs-number\">1<\/span>);\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">echo<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-variable\">$newStr<\/span>; <span class=\"hljs-comment\">\/\/ \u8f93\u51fa\uff1aHello World<\/span>\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In the example above, the first parameter of the substr function is the string to be sliced, the second parameter is the starting position, and the third parameter is the length. 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