how remove last special character from this string with preg_replace?

Question

I want to remove this >

from

com.gau.go.launcherex.gowidget.weatherwidget>

Answer 1

To remove > you can use preg_replace() as

preg_replace('/[>$]/s', '', $str);

Output

com.gau.go.launcherex.gowidget.weatherwidget

Answer 2

Put the character before $ to match it at the end of the string.

$string = preg_replace('/>$/', '', $string);

Answer 3

To remove this > im used this code

rtrim($string,'&gt');