How to get the last character of a string in Java

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to get the last character of a string in Java.

Consider, we have the following string.

String str = "google";

Now, we want to get the last character e from the above string.

Getting the last character

To access the last character of a string in Java, we can use the substring() method by passing string.length()-1 as an argument.

Here is an example that gets the last character e from the following string:

String str = "google";
System.out.println( str.substring(str.length()-1));

Output:

"e"

Similarly, you can also get the last two characters of a string like this:

String str = "google";
System.out.println( str.substring(str.length()-2));

Note: The extraction starts at str.length()-2 and ends upto last character index.