lastGraphemeCluster

Return the last n grapheme clusters (i.e., user-perceived characters) of a string.

Installation

npm install @stdlib/string-base-last-grapheme-cluster

Usage

var lastGraphemeCluster = require( '@stdlib/string-base-last-grapheme-cluster' );

lastGraphemeCluster( str, n )

Returns the last n grapheme clusters (i.e., user-perceived characters) of a string.

var out = lastGraphemeCluster( 'Hello World', 1 );
// returns 'd'

out = lastGraphemeCluster( 'Evening', 3 );
// returns 'ing'

out = lastGraphemeCluster( 'foo bar', 10 );
// returns 'foo bar'

Examples

var lastGraphemeCluster = require( '@stdlib/string-base-last-grapheme-cluster' );

var str = lastGraphemeCluster( 'Hello World!', 1 );
// returns '!'

str = lastGraphemeCluster( 'JavaScript', 6 );
// returns 'Script'

str = lastGraphemeCluster( 'stdlib', 10 );
// returns 'stdlib'

str = lastGraphemeCluster( '🐶🐮🐷🐰🐸', 2 );
// returns '🐰🐸'

str = lastGraphemeCluster( '六书/六書', 2 );
// returns '六書'

See Also

• @stdlib/string-base/first-grapheme-cluster: return the first grapheme cluster (i.e., user-perceived character) of a string.
• @stdlib/string-base/last-code-point: return the last Unicode code point of a string.
• @stdlib/string-base/last: return the last UTF-16 code unit of a string.

Notice

This package is part of stdlib, a standard library for JavaScript and Node.js, with an emphasis on numerical and scientific computing. The library provides a collection of robust, high performance libraries for mathematics, statistics, streams, utilities, and more.

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