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+import java.io.*;
+
+class unicode {
+
+	
+	public static void main(String[] args)
+	{
+
+		
+		try {
+
+			
+			String str = "Geeksforgeeks";
+
+			
+			int result_1 = str.codePointAt(0);
+
+			
+			int result_2 = str.codePointAt(-4);
+
+		
+			System.out.println("Original String : " + str);
+
+		
+			System.out.println("Character(unicode point) = "
+							+ result_1);
+
+		
+			System.out.println("Character(unicode point) = "
+							+ result_2);
+		}
+
+	
+		catch (IndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
+
+			
+			System.out.println("Exception thrown :" + e);
+		}
+	}
+}