How to remove part of a string?

My favourite way of doing this is “splitting and popping”:

var str = "test_23";
alert(str.split("_").pop());
// -> 23

var str2 = "adifferenttest_153";
alert(str2.split("_").pop());
// -> 153

split() splits a string into an array of strings using a specified separator string.
pop() removes the last element from an array and returns that element.