Without any more information, you could do something along these lines: var string = '99999-0123'; var newstring = string.slice(0,-5); But that won't take into account if the first 5 numbers are, in fact, numeric. Should the numeric check occur prior to the string slicing? Mark On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 8:47 AM, Zhu, Kaile NAF USARMY IMCOM HQ (US) < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED > > Anybody can help me with such JavaScript code that can chop the ending > portion of the string - last 5 characters - verifying if it is all numbers > (zip code)? > > Thanks. > > Kelly Zhu > > CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED >