How to get the last occurrence of a character in a string in Swift

In this tutorial, will see how to get the last occurrence of a character in a string in Swift. This task can be done easily with the help of in-built functions from Swift.

Step 1: Declare a variable of string type and define its value.

Step 2: Find the last index of occurrence of a character in the string using the lastIndex() method. It also includes spaces in counting.

• lastIndex(of: element) is an in-built method from Swift. It traverses through the string and returns the last index where the element is found. Or returns nil otherwise.
• element: It is the parameter of a function. Which defines an element to search for in a string

Step 3: Print the index of the character if it is present in the string otherwise print character does not found.

• utf16Offset(in: element) is the method used to get the UTF-16 offset of the index from element.
• element: It is a parameter that defines the element to search within for the index

Swift Code: last occurrence of a character in a string in Swift

var str = "Hello World"   //string variable
if let i = str.lastIndex(of: "l")  //get last index of 'l' in str
{
   print("The last occurrence of a character 'l' in 'Hello World' is at index : ", i.utf16Offset(in: str)) //print index i from string str
}
else
{
   print("Character 't' is not present in 'Hello World'")
}

Output :

The last occurrence of a character 'l' in 'Hello World' is at index : 9

Also, refer to Replace characters of a string in Swift