How to get last character of String in Python?
Get Last Character of String
To get the last character of the given string in Python, we can use string indexing using square brackets.
Syntax
The syntax to get the last character of the string x
is
x[len(x) - 1]
Example
In the following program, we take a string value in variable name
, and get the last character of the string.
Python Program
name = 'apple'
if len(name) > 0:
lastChar = name[len(name) - 1]
print(f'Last character : {lastChar}')
else:
print('The string is empty. Please check.')
Output
Last character : e
Summary
In this tutorial of Python Examples, we learned how to get the last character of a string, with examples.