How to get the last character from a string in Swift

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

Getting the last character

To get the last character of a string, we can use the string.last property in Swift.

Here is an example, that gets the last character o from a given string:

let name = "Polo"
let lastCharacter  = name.last!
print(lastCharacter)

Output:

"o"

Similarly, we can also use the suffix() method by passing 1 as an argument to it.

let name = "Polo"
let lastCharacter  = name.suffix(1)!
print(lastCharacter)

The suffix() method can also be used to get the last n characters from a string.

Example for getting last 3 characters:

let name = "Polo"
let lastThree  = name.suffix(3)!
print(lastThree)

Output:

"olo"

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