topic Re: remove the last word in a string in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/remove-the-last-word-in-a-string/m-p/446785#M35058 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><PRE __default_attr="plain" __jive_macro_name="code" class="jive_macro_code jive_text_macro">" ".join(var.split()[:-1])</PRE><SPAN>Will return the original string, minus the last word.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:21:53 GMT BruceNielsen 2012-08-16T20:21:53Z remove the last word in a string https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/remove-the-last-word-in-a-string/m-p/446783#M35056 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>How does one remove the last word in a string if the field I am querying has variable character lengths?&nbsp; I.e:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>1234 S Man 77025</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>123 Main 00865</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I want to remove the zip code here but the character counts vary.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:22:17 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/remove-the-last-word-in-a-string/m-p/446783#M35056 DanielErklauer 2012-08-16T17:22:17Z Re: remove the last word in a string https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/remove-the-last-word-in-a-string/m-p/446784#M35057 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>This should do what you want. Where var is your string.</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="plain" name="code">var.split(" ")[:-1]</PRE><DIV style="display:none;"> </DIV><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If the portion of the string you are trying to remove is always the same length, you could also use the simpler.</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="plain" name="code">var[:-6]</PRE><DIV style="display:none;"> </DIV></BODY></HTML> Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:48:37 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/remove-the-last-word-in-a-string/m-p/446784#M35057 MathewCoyle 2012-08-16T17:48:37Z Re: remove the last word in a string https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/remove-the-last-word-in-a-string/m-p/446785#M35058 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><PRE __default_attr="plain" __jive_macro_name="code" class="jive_macro_code jive_text_macro">" ".join(var.split()[:-1])</PRE><SPAN>Will return the original string, minus the last word.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:21:53 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/remove-the-last-word-in-a-string/m-p/446785#M35058 BruceNielsen 2012-08-16T20:21:53Z Re: remove the last word in a string https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/remove-the-last-word-in-a-string/m-p/1213028#M65581 <P>Thank you Bruce. Exactly what I needed.</P> Thu, 15 Sep 2022 17:10:04 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/remove-the-last-word-in-a-string/m-p/1213028#M65581 ColeSutton11 2022-09-15T17:10:04Z