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1. Replace Character 2. Remove Character 3. Insert Character at Position 4. Remove First Character 5. Remove Last Character 6. Swap First and Last Character 7. Duplicate String N Times 8. Add Characters Between Each Character 9. Remove All Occurrences of Substring 10. Reverse Each Word

Remove Last Character

Remove last character from string.

BeginnerPhase 5 - Category 4: String TransformationExample 5 of 10

remove-last-character.py

1# Take string input
2s = input("Enter a string: ")
3
4# Remove last character
5if len(s) > 0:
6    result = s[:-1]
7    print(f"After removal: {result}")
8else:
9    print("String is empty")

Output

Enter a string: Hello
After removal: Hell

What's going on

Use slicing to skip last character.

Key Concepts:

s[:-1] excludes last character

Returns substring

Check if string not empty

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