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# Tail

| type   | returns  |
| ------ | -------- |
| method | `string` |

## Arguments

| name | type | description                      |
| ---- | ---- | -------------------------------- |
| size | int  | the amount of characters to grab |

## Explanation

Returns a substring of the given size, starting at the string's last character. Roughly equivilent to `#slice(-size)`

## Examples

```swift
"Hello!".tail(1) == "!"
// Goat emoji is a surrogate of two bytes
"🐑🐐".tail(2) == "🐐"
```