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JavaScript - replace last n characters in string
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In this article, we're going to have a look at how to replace the last n characters from string in JavaScript.
This approach allows getting substring by using negative indexes. So by using 0 and -n indexes as the range we get <0, text.length - n> text range. Then, we add the replacement at the end of the result string to replace the missing two characters.
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let text = 'ABCD';2
let n = 3;3
let replacement = 'xyz';4
let result = text.slice(0, -n) + replacement;5
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console.log(result); // AxyzThis is an alternative approach to slice method based solution. We remove the last n characters to add the replacement at the end of the result string to replace the missing n characters.
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let text = 'ABCD';2
let n = 3;3
let replacement = 'xyz';4
let result = text.substring(0, text.length - n) + replacement;5
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console.log(result); // Axyz