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title: Use Bracket Notation to Find the Nth-to-Last Character in a String
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## Use Bracket Notation to Find the Nth-to-Last Character in a String

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Remember that the position of any character, is the <strong>length of the string, minus one, minus the number of characters after it</strong>. For example, if you are trying to find the third-to-last character of the following string:

    var str = "Programming";
    var secondToLastChar = str[str.length - 2]; // This is 'i'
    
As you can see, there is one extra character after 'n' (and that is 'g').