In a javascript array, how do I get the last 5 elements, excluding the first element?

Question

[1, 55, 77, 88] // ...would return [55, 77, 88]

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adding additional examples:

[1, 55, 77, 88, 99, 22, 33, 44] // ...wo         


        

Answer 1

Try this:

var array = [1, 55, 77, 88, 76, 59];
var array_last_five;
array_last_five = array.slice(-5);
if (array.length < 6) {
     array_last_five.shift();
}