List lastIndexOf() Method in Java with Examples

This method returns the last index of the occurrence of the specified element in this list, or -1 if this list does not contain the element.

Example:

[1, 2, 3, 1]
Index of 1 : 3

Syntax of Method

int lastIndexOf(Object o)

Parameters: This function has a single parameter, i.e, the element to be searched in the list.

Returns: This method returns the last index of occurrence of the given element in the list and returns "-1" if element is not in the list.

Example of lastIndexOf() Method

Below programs show the implementation of this method.

Program 1:

[1, 3, 5, 7, 3]
Index of 3 : 4

Program 2:

Below is the code to show implementation of list.lastIndexOf() using Linkedlist.

[10, 30, 50, 70, 30]
Index of 30 : 4

Reference: Oracle Docs