#### Previous topic

numpy.core.defchararray.rsplit

#### Next topic

numpy.core.defchararray.split

# numpy.core.defchararray.rstrip

`numpy.core.defchararray.``rstrip`(a, chars=None)

  For each element in a, return a copy with the trailing characters removed.

  Calls str.rstrip element-wise.

  Parameters : | a : array-like of str or unicode chars : str or unicode, optional The chars argument is a string specifying the set of characters to be removed. If omitted or None, the chars argument defaults to removing whitespace. The chars argument is not a suffix; rather, all combinations of its values are stripped.
  Returns : | out : ndarray Output array of str or unicode, depending on input type

  See also

  `str.rstrip`

  Examples

      >>> c = np.array(['aAaAaA', 'abBABba'], dtype='S7'); c
      array(['aAaAaA', 'abBABba'],
          dtype='|S7')
      >>> np.char.rstrip(c, 'a')
      array(['aAaAaA', 'abBABb'],
          dtype='|S7')
      >>> np.char.rstrip(c, 'A')
      array(['aAaAa', 'abBABba'],
          dtype='|S7')