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		mprovost on March 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: String length functions for single emoji character... To index from the end of the string. If you want the last 3 characters from a string, it's often easier to reverse the string and take the first 3.

saagarjha on March 26, 2021 [–]

Most languages that are good enough at doing Unicode are also modern enough to give you a “suffix” function.

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