Method to Get Last n Characters of a String in JAVA

In this post, I am going to share a simple method that will help you to get last n (1, 2, 3 4, …) characters from a S tring in Java. This method is very simple as it just takes String and integer count as a parameter and returns another string containing the last specified number of characters. The Java function is the following.

Method to Get Last n Characters of a String in Java

public static String getLastNCharsOfString(String str, int n) {
        String lastnChars = str;
        if (lastnChars.length() > n) {
            lastnChars = lastnChars.substring(lastnChars.length() - n, lastnChars.length());
        }
        return lastnChars;
    }

Input

getLastNCharsOfString("Hello world", 3);

Return Value (Output)

"rld"

How it Works

This method takes a String and an integer as a parameter. Then it first checks the count of string to avoid index out of bound exception. If the integer n value is greater than the total length of the String, it uses subString method to get the last specified character from the string.

Enjoy 🙂

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