全局的dropLast()函数作用于序列，因此也作用于字符串:

var expression  = "45+22"
expression = dropLast(expression)  // "45+2"

// in Swift 2.0 (according to cromanelli's comment below)
expression = String(expression.characters.dropLast())

var str = "Hello, playground"

extension String {
    var stringByDeletingLastCharacter: String {
        return dropLast(self)
    }
}

println(str.stringByDeletingLastCharacter)   // "Hello, playgroun"

Swift 3:当你想删除尾随字符串:

func replaceSuffix(_ suffix: String, replacement: String) -> String {
    if hasSuffix(suffix) {
        let sufsize = suffix.count < count ? -suffix.count : 0
        let toIndex = index(endIndex, offsetBy: sufsize)
        return substring(to: toIndex) + replacement
    }
    else
    {
        return self
    }
}

修剪字符串最后一个字符最简单的方法是:

title = title[title.startIndex ..< title.endIndex.advancedBy(-1)]

一个快速变化的类别:

extension String {
    mutating func removeCharsFromEnd(removeCount:Int)
    {
        let stringLength = count(self)
        let substringIndex = max(0, stringLength - removeCount)
        self = self.substringToIndex(advance(self.startIndex, substringIndex))
    }
}

使用:

var myString = "abcd"
myString.removeCharsFromEnd(2)
println(myString) // "ab"

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>