Get the Last Digit of a Number in JavaScript

Get the Last Digit of a Number #

To get the last digit of a number:

Convert the number to a string and call the slice() method on the string, passing it -1 as a parameter.
The slice method will return the last character in the string.
Convert the string back to a number to get the last digit.

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// 👇️ Decimal numbers
const num1 = 1357.579;
const lastDigit1Str = String(num1).slice(-1); // 👉️ '9'
const lastDigit1Num = Number(lastDigit1Str); // 9

// 👇️ Integers
const num2 = 1357;
const lastDigit2Str = String(num2).slice(-1); // 👉️ '7'
const lastDigit2Num = Number(lastDigit2Str); // 👉️ 7

This approach works for integer and float numbers.

The first step is to use the String object to convert the number to a string, so we can call the String.slice method on it.

Indexes are zero-based in JavaScript. The index of the first character in a string is 0 and the last - str.length - 1.

The only parameter we passed to the slice method is the start index - the index at which to start extraction.

Passing a negative index of -1, means give me the last character of the string.

This is the same as passing string.length - 1 as the start index.

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const str = 'Hello World';

const last1 = str.slice(-1); // 👉️ d
console.log(last1);

const last1Again = str.slice(str.length - 1); // 👉️ d
console.log(last1Again);

The slice method returns a string, so the last step is to convert it back to a number, using the Number object.

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Borislav Hadzhiev