How to extract the last n characters from a string using Java?

To extract last n characters, simply print (length-n)th character to nth character using the charAt() method.

Example

Live Demo

public class ExtractingCharactersFromStrings {
   public static void main(String args[]) {
   
      String str = "Hi welcome to tutorialspoint";
      int n = 5;
      int initial = str.length()-5;
      for(int i=initial; i<str.length(); i++) {
         System.out.println(str.charAt(i));
      }
   }
}

Output

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n
t

Vikyath Ram

Updated on: 20-Feb-2020

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