How to Get the Last Element of a List in C#

1. Get the Last Element of a List With the List.Count Property in C#
2. Get the Last Element of a List With the LINQ Method in C#

This tutorial will discuss the methods to get the last element of a list in C#.

Get the Last Element of a List With the List.Count Property in C#

The List.Count property gives the number of elements inside the list in C#. We can get the last index of the list by subtracting 1 from the List.Count value. We can then find the last element of the list by using this index.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;

namespace last_element_of_list {
  class Program {
    static void Main(string[] args) {
      List<string> slist = new List<string> { "value1", "value2", "value3" };
      string last = slist[slist.Count - 1];
      Console.WriteLine(last);
    }
  }
}

Output:

value3

In the above code, we stored the last element of the list of strings slist in the string variable last with the slist.Count property in C#. We calculated the last index of the slist with slist.Count - 1 and stored the element at that index in the last string.

Get the Last Element of a List With the LINQ Method in C#

The LINQ is used to perform query operations on data structures in C#. The Last() function inside the LINQ gets the last element of a data structure. We can use the Last() function to get the last element of our list.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;

namespace last_element_of_list {
  class Program {
    static void Main(string[] args) {
      List<string> slist = new List<string> { "value1", "value2", "value3" };
      string last = slist.Last();
      Console.WriteLine(last);
    }
  }
}

Output:

value3

In the above code, we stored the last element of the list of strings slist in the string variable last with the slist.Last() property in C#.