String lastIndexOf(String str) Method

Description

This method accepts a String as an argument, if the string argument occurs one or more times as a substring within this object, then it returns the index of the first character of the last such substring is returned. If it does not occur as a substring, -1 is returned.

Syntax

Here is the syntax of this method −

public int lastIndexOf(String str)

Parameters

Here is the detail of parameters −

• str − a string.

Return Value

• This method returns the index.

Example

import java.io.*;
public class Test {

   public static void main(String args[]) {
      String Str = new String("Welcome to Tutorialspoint.com");
      String SubStr1 = new String("Tutorials" );
      System.out.print("Found Last Index :" );
      System.out.println( Str.lastIndexOf( SubStr1 ));
   }
}

This will produce the following result −

Output

Found Last Index :11

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