Learn how to get the index of last occurrence of a element in the ArrayList. We will be using ArrayList.lastIndexOf() method to get the last index.
1. ArrayList.lastIndexOf() method
This method returns the index of the last occurrence of the specified element in this list. It will return '-1'
if the list does not contain the element.
1.1. lastIndexOf() method syntax
public int lastIndexOf(Object object) { if (o == null) { for (int i = size-1; i >= 0; i--) if (elementData[i]==null) return i; } else { for (int i = size-1; i >= 0; i--) if (o.equals(elementData[i])) return i; } return -1; }
1.2. lastIndexOf() method parameter
object
– the object which needs to be searched in the list for it’s last index position.
1.3. lastIndexOf() return value
Return value is of int
type.
index
– last index position of element if element is found.-1
– if element is NOT found.
2. ArrayList lastIndexOf() example to get last index of element
Java program for how to get last index of arraylist. In this example, we are looking for last occurrence of string “alex” in the given list.
Note – Please note that arraylist index starts from 0.
import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Arrays; public class ArrayListExample { public static void main(String[] args) { ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList("alex", "brian", "charles","alex","dough","gary","alex","harry")); int lastIndex = list.lastIndexOf("alex"); System.out.println(lastIndex); lastIndex = list.lastIndexOf("hello"); System.out.println(lastIndex); } }
Program output.
6 -1
Happy Learning !!
Read More:
A Guide to Java ArrayList
ArrayList Java Docs