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] // ...would return [88, 99, 22, 33, 44]

[1] // ...would return []

Answer 1

You can call:

arr.slice(Math.max(arr.length - 5, 1))

If you don't want to exclude the first element, use

arr.slice(Math.max(arr.length - 5, 0))