# Re: Getting last character from a string

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-getting-last-character-from-a-string/66025>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 12, 2006, 1:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-getting-last-character-from-a-string/66025 "2006-02-12T01:12:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 1:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-getting-last-character-from-a-string/66025/1 "2006-02-12T01:12:09Z")

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you can use

text=“my unfinishing text with an unknown last character”  
result=text[-1].chr  
p result =\> r