Question: How to cut off last rune in UTF string?
This method is obviously incorrect:

```
package main

import ("fmt"
 "unicode/utf8")

func main() {
    string := "你好"
    length := utf8.RuneCountInString(string)
    // how to cut off last rune in UTF string? 
    // this method is obviously incorrect:
    withoutLastRune := string[0:length-1]
    fmt.Println(withoutLastRune)
}

```

[Playground](http://play.golang.org/p/ugeMExeedT)

Answer: 
Almost,

utf8 package has a function to decode the last rune in a string which also returns its length. Cut that number of bytes off the end and you are golden:

```
str := "你好"
_, lastSize := utf8.DecodeLastRuneInString(str)
withoutLastRune := str[:len(str)-lastSize]
fmt.Println(withoutLastRune)

```

[playground](http://play.golang.org/p/fQTI97H98Q)
Using DecodeLastRuneInString is the best answer. I'll just note that if you prize simpler code over run time efficiency, you can do

```

    s := []rune(str)
    fmt.Println(string(s[:len(s)-1]))

```