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

补充上述代码，我想删除字符串的开头，但在任何地方都找不到引用。以下是我的做法:

var mac = peripheral.identifier.description
let range = mac.startIndex..<mac.endIndex.advancedBy(-50)
mac.removeRange(range)  // trim 17 characters from the beginning
let txPower = peripheral.advertisements.txPower?.description

这将从字符串的开头修剪17个字符(字符串的总长度是67，从末尾向前移动-50，就得到了它。

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())

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())

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
    }
}

使用函数removeAtIndex(i: String.Index)

var s = "abc"    
s.removeAtIndex(s.endIndex.predecessor())  // "ab"