How to use regex to Remove Last Element from string In Python

Using rstrip() function to Remove the Last Element from the string

Here we are using the concept of regular expression and removing the last character of the string.

Python3

import re
 
def reg(m):
    return m.group(1)
 
# sample string
Str = "w3wiki"
 
# Remove last character from string
new_string = re.sub("(.*)(.{1}$)", reg, Str)
print(new_string)

Output

GEEKSFORGEEK

Python program to Remove Last character from the string

Given a string, the task is to write a Python program to remove the last character from the given string.

Example:

Input: “w3wiki”
Output: “GeeksForGeek”

Input: “1234”
Output: “123”
Explanation: Here we are removing the last character of the original string.