Run results for: Remove First and Last Characters in String

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.2 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 26

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 7 months ago

String.slice()

329.1M/s

String.substring()

312.9M/s

String.replace()

308.0M/s

Via Array methods

7.6M/s

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Tests:

Via Array methods
var str = '//.*//' str = [...str] str.shift() str.pop() str.join('')
String.replace()
var str = '//.*//' str = str.replace(/^.|.$/g,'')
String.slice()
var str = '//.*//' str = str.slice(1,-1)
String.substring()
var str = '//.*//' str = str.substring(1,str.length-1)