Swift 3(根据文档)2016年11月20日

let range = expression.index(expression.endIndex, offsetBy: -numberOfCharactersToRemove)..<expression.endIndex
expression.removeSubrange(range)

斯威夫特4

var welcome = "Hello World!"
welcome = String(welcome[..<welcome.index(before:welcome.endIndex)])

or

welcome.remove(at: welcome.index(before: welcome.endIndex))

or

welcome = String(welcome.dropLast())

使用函数advance(startIndex, endIndex):

var str = "45+22"
str = str.substringToIndex(advance(str.startIndex, countElements(str) - 1))

我更喜欢下面的实现，因为我不必担心，即使字符串是空的

let str = "abc"
str.popLast()

// Prints ab

str = ""
str.popLast() // It returns the Character? which is an optional

// Print <emptystring>

这是一个字符串扩展表单:

extension String {

    func removeCharsFromEnd(count_:Int) -> String {
        let stringLength = count(self)

        let substringIndex = (stringLength < count_) ? 0 : stringLength - count_

        return self.substringToIndex(advance(self.startIndex, substringIndex))
    }
}

对于Swift 1.2之前的版本:

...
let stringLength = countElements(self)
...

用法:

var str_1 = "Maxim"
println("output: \(str_1.removeCharsFromEnd(1))") // "Maxi"
println("output: \(str_1.removeCharsFromEnd(3))") // "Ma"
println("output: \(str_1.removeCharsFromEnd(8))") // ""

参考:

扩展向现有的类、结构或枚举类型添加新功能。这包括扩展您无法访问原始源代码的类型的能力(称为回溯建模)。扩展类似于Objective-C中的类别。(与Objective-C类别不同，Swift扩展没有名称。)

看文档

使用新的Substring类型用法:

斯威夫特4:

var before: String = "Hello world!"
var lastCharIndex: Int = before.endIndex
var after:String = String(before[..<lastCharIndex])
print(after) // Hello world

短:

var before: String = "Hello world!"
after = String(before[..<before.endIndex])
print(after) // Hello world