Get the last 2 digits of a number in Java

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to get the last 2 digits of a number in Java.

Note: Strings are sequence of characters, where indexes are zero-based. The last character is in position 0, the second in 1, and index of a last character is string.length()-1 etc.

Get the last 2 digits of a number

To get the last 2 digits of a number, convert the number to a string and call the substring() method on it, by passing the string.length()-2 as a argument.

The substring() method returns the last 2 character of a string then convert the result back to a number to get the last 2 digits.

Note: The string.length()-2 givens index of a second character from the end.

Here is an example:

int price = 4239;
String priceStr = Integer.toString(price);
int lastCharTwoIndex = priceStr.length()-2; // 2nd character index from last
int lastTwoDigits = Integer.parseInt(priceStr.substring(lastCharTwoIndex));
System.out.println(lastTwoDigits);

Output:

39

In the example above, on the first step we have converted the number to a string using the Integer.toString() method.

We have passed the priceStr.length()-2 as argument to the substring() method, so it returns the last 2 characters.

The last step, we used the Integer.parseInt() method to convert it back to a number.

References

• Strings in Java

• Integers in Java