Pop() method in JavaScript to remove last element of an array

<script type="text/javascript">
var scripts = new Array();
scripts[0] = "PHP";
scripts[1] = "ASP";
scripts[2] = "JavaScript";
scripts[3] = "HTML";
document.write(scripts.join(" ,"));
document.write("<br>--Now after applying pop()--<br>");
scripts.pop();
document.write(scripts.join(" , "));
</script>

The last element HTML will be removed (and returned )from the array. Output is here.

PHP , ASP , JavaScript , HTML
--Now after applying pop()--
PHP , ASP , JavaScript

We can remove the last element of the array by applying pop() method to the JavaScript function.

last_element=scripts.pop();

This way the array length or size also decreases by one.

This pop() method changes the original array.
It returns the removed element.
Where scripts is our array object.

Getting the last element after removal

<script type="text/javascript">
var scripts = new Array();
scripts[0] = "PHP";
scripts[1] = "ASP";
scripts[2] = "JavaScript";
scripts[3] = "HTML";

var str=scripts.pop();
document.write(str); 
</script>

Output is here

HTML

Numeric Keys

The assigned numeric keys are remain same after applying pop()

<script type="text/javascript">
var scripts = new Array();
scripts[0] = "PHP";
scripts[1] = "ASP";
scripts[2] = "JavaScript";
scripts[3] = "HTML";

scripts.pop();
for (var key in scripts) {
  document.write("key : " + key + "  =>value: " + scripts[key] + "<br>");
}
</script>

Output is here

key : 0 =>value: PHP
key : 1 =>value: ASP
key : 2 =>value: JavaScript

We can use shift() to remove first element from the array

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Pop() to remove last element of an array

Getting the last element after removal

Numeric Keys