String.CodePointBefore(Int32) Method
Definition
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Returns the character (Unicode code point) before the specified index.
[Android.Runtime.Register("codePointBefore", "(I)I", "")]
public int CodePointBefore (int index);
[<Android.Runtime.Register("codePointBefore", "(I)I", "")>]
member this.CodePointBefore : int -> int
Parameters
- index
- Int32
the index following the code point that should be returned
Returns
the Unicode code point value before the given index.
- Attributes
Exceptions
if index length()
Remarks
Returns the character (Unicode code point) before the specified index. The index refers to char
values (Unicode code units) and ranges from 1
to CharSequence#length() length
.
If the char
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 char
value at index - 1
is an unpaired low-surrogate or a high-surrogate, the surrogate value is returned.
Added in 1.5.
Java documentation for java.lang.String.codePointBefore(int)
.
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Applies to
See also
- <xref:Java.Lang.Character.CodePointBefore(System.Char%5b%5d%2c+System.Int32%2c+System.Int32)>