Answers for "how to grab the last word in a sentence using js"

get last word in string js

function test(words) {
    var n = words.split(" ");
    return n[n.length - 1];
}

JavaScript the last word of a string

// Get the last word of a string.

let str = "What I hate most in the world is fanaticism.";

// 1) The slice() method: without Considering the punctuation marks
str.slice(str.lastIndexOf(' ')); // => 'fanaticism.'

// 2) the spit() method():
let arr = str.split(' ');
arr[arr.length - 1]; // => 'fanaticism.'


// Considering the punctuation marks at the end of the string
str.match(/\b(\w+)\W*$/)[1]; // => 'fanaticism'

javascript get last word in string

// strips all punctuation and returns the last word of a string
// hyphens (-) aren't stripped, add the hyphen to the regex to strip it as well
function lastWord(words) {
    let n = words.replace(/[\[\]?.,\/#!$%\^&\*;:{}=\\|_~()]/g, "").split(" ");
    return n[n.length - 1];
}