Remove the last three characters from a string

Question

I want to remove last three characters from a string:

string myString = "abcdxxx"; 

Note that the string is dynamic data.

Answer 1

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