[java] How to get the last characters in a String in Java, regardless of String size

I'm looking for a way to pull the last characters from a String, regardless of size. Lets take these strings into example:

"abcd: efg: 1006746"
"bhddy: nshhf36: 1006754"
"hfquv: nd: 5894254"

As you can see, completely random strings, but they have 7 numbers at the end. How would I be able to take those 7 numbers?

Edit:

I just realized that String[] string = s.split(": "); would work great here, as long as I call string[2] for the numbers and string[1] for anything in the middle.

StringUtils.substringAfterLast("abcd: efg: 1006746", ": ") = "1006746";

As long as the format of the string is fixed you can use substringAfterLast.

I'd use either String.split or a regex:

Using String.split

String[] numberSplit = yourString.split(":") ; 
String numbers = numberSplit[ (numberSplit.length-1) ] ; //!! last array element

Using RegEx (requires import java.util.regex.*)

String numbers = "" ;
Matcher numberMatcher = Pattern.compile("[0-9]{7}").matcher(yourString) ;
    if( matcher.find() ) {
            numbers = matcher.group(0) ;
    } 

This should work

 Integer i= Integer.parseInt(text.substring(text.length() - 7));

E.g : "abcd: efg: 1006746" "bhddy: nshhf36: 1006754" "hfquv: nd: 5894254"

-Step 1: String firstString = "abcd: efg: 1006746";

-Step 2: String lastSevenNumber = firstString.substring(firstString.lastIndexOf(':'), firstString.length()).trim();

org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.substring(s, -7) 

gives you the answer. It returns the input if it is shorter than 7, and null if s == null. It never throws an exception.

See https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/apidocs/org/apache/commons/lang3/StringUtils.html#substring-java.lang.String-int-int-

String inputstr = "abcd: efg: 1006746"
int startindex = inputstr.length() - 10;
String outputtendigitstr = inputstr.substring(startindex);

Make sure you check string length is more than 10.

This code works for me perfectly:

String numbers = text.substring(Math.max(0, text.length() - 7));

You can achieve it using this single line code :

String numbers = text.substring(text.length() - 7, text.length());

But be sure to catch Exception if the input string length is less than 7.

You can replace 7 with any number say N, if you want to get last 'N' characters.

This question is the top Google result for "Java String Right".

Surprisingly, no-one has yet mentioned Apache Commons StringUtils.right():

String numbers = org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils.right( text, 7 );

This also handles the case where text is null, where many of the other answers would throw a NullPointerException.

How about:

String numbers = text.substring(text.length() - 7);

That assumes that there are 7 characters at the end, of course. It will throw an exception if you pass it "12345". You could address that this way:

String numbers = text.substring(Math.max(0, text.length() - 7));

or

String numbers = text.length() <= 7 ? text : text.substring(text.length() - 7);

Note that this still isn't doing any validation that the resulting string contains numbers - and it will still throw an exception if text is null.