lastIndexOf() - String Methods in Java
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String Methods in Java.
The lastIndexOf() method returns the index within the string of the last
occurrence of the
specified character. The parameter passed in this method can be of String type
which
represents the string to be searched, or of char type representing a character to
be
searched. We can pass one more parameter fromIndex which indicates the index from
where the
search should begin.
Return type
The return type of lastIndexOf() method is an int value. The integer
represents the last
occurrence of the specified parameter, if the output is -1 then it represents that the
specified parameter never occurs.
Let us look at an example for this method.
Output
Let us look at the output of the above.
Here the search begins from the length()-1 position and the specified parameters are searched accordingly.