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

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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.

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