a simple string question

[skarosi]

Hi all,
I know that my question is quite simple, u might even call it stupid, but i cant find the solution, no matter how much i am look for it.
anyway, I want to check if a string is a part of an other string. I have tried the Substring, but aparently this extracts a string from a bigger string, I also tried a method that compares the two strings one by one from the first char, but thats not what i want, i want to compare it through out the bigger string.
for example to compare "lo" with "Hello" and get a positive return.
thanks, ilias

 

[jemminger]

use String.indexOf(String otherString)

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/String.html

String haystack = "Hello";
String needle = "lo";

if (haystack.indexOf(needle) > -1) {
  //  found it
}

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[skarosi]

Thanks man,
so it is the indexOf() method. good to know
will give it a try,
cheers

 

[jemminger]

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[skarosi]

I know the API site, but now i moved to a new house, and dont have a DSL connection, so its quite a pain to wait for the API to download. I have a pdf book, but didnt manage to find it there.
anyway, it worked just fine, cheers

 

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