editor - How do I delete the last character in each line using vim

Question

I have a file:

12345a
123456b
1234567c
12345678d
123456789e

How do I delete the last character in each line.
And the file will be

12345
123456
1234567
12345678
123456789

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36264659/how-do-i-delete-the-last-character-in-each-line-using-vim

Answer 1

You could use :%s/.{1}$// to delete 1 character off the end of each line.