Java String: codePointBefore() Method

codePointBefore() method - Gets the character (Unicode code point) before the specified index

The codePointBefore() method is used to get a character (Unicode code point) before the specified index. The index refers to character values (Unicode code units) and ranges from 1 to length.

If the character value at (index - 1) is in the low-surrogate range, (index - 2) is not negative, and the char value at (index - 2) is in the high-surrogate range, then the supplementary code point value of the surrogate pair is returned. If the character value at index - 1 is an unpaired low-surrogate or a high-surrogate, the surrogate value is returned.

Java Platform: Java SE 8 and above

Syntax codePointBefore() method

codePointBefore(int index)

Parameters codePointBefore() method

Return Value codePointBefore() method

• The Unicode code point value before the given index.

Return Value Type: int

Throws: IndexOutOfBoundsException - if the index argument is less than 1 or greater than the length of this string.

Example: Java String codePointBefore() Method

The following example shows the usage of java String() method.

public class Example {

public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println();
    String str = "w3resource.com";
System.out.println("Original String : " + str);

    // codepoint before index 1
int val1 = str.codePointBefore(1);

   // codepoint before index 9
int val2 = str.codePointBefore(9);

    // prints character before index1 in string
System.out.println("Character(unicode point) = " + val1);
    // prints character before index9 in string
System.out.println("Character(unicode point) = " + val2);
System.out.println();
  }
}

Output:

Original String : w3resource.com                       
Character(unicode point) = 119                         
Character(unicode point) = 99 

Example of Throws: codePointBefore(int index) Method

IndexOutOfBoundsException - if the index argument is less than 1 or greater than the length of this string.

Let

int val2 = str.codePointBefore(-9);

in the above example.

Output:

Original String : w3resource.com                       
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBo
undsException: String index out of range: -9           
        at java.lang.String.codePointBefore(String.java
:717)                                                  
        at Exercise.main(Example.java:12)

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