How to Get the Last Five Characters of a String Using Substring() in C#

Get last 3 characters of string

Many ways this can be achieved.

Simple approach should be taking Substring of an input string.

var result = input.Substring(input.Length - 3);

Another approach using Regular Expression to extract last 3 characters.

var result = Regex.Match(input,@"(.{3})\s*$");

Working Demo

How to get the last five characters of a string using Substring() in C#?

If your input string could be less than five characters long then you should be aware that string.Substring will throw an ArgumentOutOfRangeException if the startIndex argument is negative.

To solve this potential problem you can use the following code:

string sub = input.Substring(Math.Max(0, input.Length - 5));

Or more explicitly:

public static string Right(string input, int length)
{
    if (length >= input.Length)
    {
        return input;
    }
    else
    {
        return input.Substring(input.Length - length);
    }
}

C# 8 way to get last n characters from a string

Others are correct in that it is just syntax sugar but there is some slight differences. They both call "Substring" however the hat version calls the String.Substring(Int32, Int32) signature and the later conventional version calls String.Substring(Int32) signature.

It's interesting that even though str[^2..] produces more code it seems to have slightly better performance in my quick benchmark.

var str = "foo";
var str2 = str[^2..];
========generates the following IL=============
   nop  
   ldstr    "foo"
   stloc.0     // str
   ldloc.0     // str
   dup  
   callvirt String.get_Length ()
   dup  
   ldc.i4.2 
   sub  
   stloc.2  
   ldloc.2  
   sub  
   stloc.3  
   ldloc.2  
   ldloc.3  
   callvirt String.Substring (Int32, Int32)
   stloc.1     // str2
   ldloc.1     // str2
   call Console.WriteLine (String)
   nop  
   ret

And the following conventional version.

var str = "foo";
var str2 = str.Substring(str.Length - 2);
========generates the following IL=============
   nop  
   ldstr    "foo"
   stloc.0     // str
   ldloc.0     // str
   ldloc.0     // str
   callvirt String.get_Length ()
   ldc.i4.2 
   sub  
   callvirt String.Substring (Int32)
   stloc.1     // str2
   ldloc.1     // str2
   call Console.WriteLine (String)
   nop  
   ret  

Remove the last three characters from a string

read last 3 characters from string [Initially asked question]

You can use string.Substring and give it the starting index and it will get the substring starting from given index till end.

myString.Substring(myString.Length-3)

Retrieves a substring from this instance. The substring starts at a
specified character position. MSDN

Edit, for updated post

Remove last 3 characters from string [Updated question]

To remove the last three characters from the string you can use string.Substring(Int32, Int32) and give it the starting index 0 and end index three less than the string length. It will get the substring before last three characters.

myString = myString.Substring(0, myString.Length-3);

String.Substring Method (Int32, Int32)

Retrieves a substring from this instance. The substring starts at a
specified character position and has a specified length.

You can also using String.Remove(Int32) method to remove the last three characters by passing start index as length - 3, it will remove from this point to end of string.

myString = myString.Remove(myString.Length-3)

String.Remove Method (Int32)

Returns a new string in which all the characters in the current
instance, beginning at a specified position and continuing through the
last position, have been deleted

get all characters to right of last dash

You can get the position of the last - with str.LastIndexOf('-'). So the next step is obvious:

var result = str.Substring(str.LastIndexOf('-') + 1);

Correction:

As Brian states below, using this on a string with no dashes will result in the original string being returned.

Extract only right most n letters from a string

string SubString = MyString.Substring(MyString.Length-6);

How can I get the last 7 characters of a PHP string?

Use substr() with a negative number for the 2nd argument.

$newstring = substr($dynamicstring, -7);

From the php docs:

string substr ( string $string , int $start [, int $length ] )

If start is negative, the returned string will start at the start'th character from the end of string.

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