Here you can find the source of charAt(String str, int index)
public static char charAt(String str, int index)
//package com.java2s; /*/*from ww w .j a v a2 s . co m*/ XuMoQi - word game program Copyright (C) 2014 Jeff Pace This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. See https://raw.github.com/jpace/xumoqi/master/LICENSE for the full license. The full source code for this program is available at: http://github.com/jpace/xumoqi This program includes code from the GPL'd program: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scrabbledict/ */ public class Main { public static char charAt(String str, int index) { return str.charAt(index >= 0 ? index : str.length() + index); } }