How to get the nth character of a string in Java

In this tutorial, we will learn how to get the nth character of a string in Java.

In Java, strings are the sequence of characters, where the index of the first character is 0, the second character is 1 etc.

Getting the nth character

To access the nth character of a string, we can use the built-in charAt() method in Java.

The charAt() method takes the character index as an argument and return its value in the string.

Here is an example, that gets the first character B from the following string:

String country = "Brazil";
char firstChar = country.charAt(0);
System.out.println(firstChar);

Output:

"B"

We can access the second and thrid characters of a string like this:

string secondChar = country.charAt(1); // r

string thirdChar = country.charAt(2); // a