[java] Java: method to get position of a match in a String?

String match = "hello";
String text = "0123456789hello0123456789";

int position = getPosition(match, text); // should be 10, is there such a method?

public int NumberWordsInText(String FullText_, String WordToFind_, int[] positions_)
   {
    int iii1=0;
    int iii2=0;
    int iii3=0;
    while((iii1=(FullText_.indexOf(WordToFind_,iii1)+1))>0){iii2=iii2+1;}
    // iii2 is the number of the occurences
    if(iii2>0) {
        positions_ = new int[iii2];
        while ((iii1 = (FullText_.indexOf(WordToFind_, iii1) + 1)) > 0) {
            positions_[iii3] = iii1-1;
            iii3 = iii3 + 1;
            System.out.println("position=" + positions_[iii3 - 1]);
        }
    }
    return iii2;
}

//finding a particular word any where inthe string and printing its index and occurence  
class IndOc
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        String s="this is hyderabad city and this is";
        System.out.println("the given string is ");
        System.out.println("----------"+s);
        char ch[]=s.toCharArray();
        System.out.println(" ----word is found at ");
        int j=0,noc=0;
        for(int i=0;i<ch.length;i++)
        {
            j=i;

            if(ch[i]=='i' && ch[j+1]=='s')
            {
                System.out.println(" index "+i);
            noc++;  
            }

        }
        System.out.println("----- no of occurences are "+noc);

    }
}

text.indexOf(match);

See the String javadoc

Use string.indexOf to get the starting index.

for multiple occurrence and the character found in string??yes or no

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class SubStringtest {

    public static void main(String[] args)throws Exception {
    BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
     System.out.println("enter the string");
    String str=br.readLine();
    System.out.println("enter the character which you want");
    CharSequence ch=br.readLine();   
    boolean bool=str.contains(ch);
    System.out.println("the character found is " +bool);
    int position=str.indexOf(ch.toString());

    while(position>=0){
        System.out.println("the index no of character is " +position); 
        position=str.indexOf(ch.toString(),position+1);
    }


    }

}

    String match = "hello";
    String text = "0123456789hello0123456789hello";

    int j = 0;
    String indxOfmatch = "";

    for (int i = -1; i < text.length()+1; i++) {
        j =  text.indexOf("hello", i);
        if (i>=j && j > -1) {
            indxOfmatch += text.indexOf("hello", i)+" ";
        }
    }
    System.out.println(indxOfmatch);

Finding a single index

As others have said, use text.indexOf(match) to find a single match.

String text = "0123456789hello0123456789";
String match = "hello";
int position = text.indexOf(match); // position = 10

Finding multiple indexes

Because of @StephenC's comment about code maintainability and my own difficulty in understanding @polygenelubricants' answer, I wanted to find another way to get all the indexes of a match in a text string. The following code (which is modified from this answer) does so:

String text = "0123hello9012hello8901hello7890";
String match = "hello";

int index = text.indexOf(match);
int matchLength = match.length();
while (index >= 0) {  // indexOf returns -1 if no match found
    System.out.println(index);
    index = text.indexOf(match, index + matchLength);
}

You can get all matches in a file simply by assigning inside while-loop, cool:

$ javac MatchTest.java 
$ java MatchTest 
1
16
31
46
$ cat MatchTest.java 
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;

public class MatchTest {
    public static void main(String[] args){
        String match = "hello";
        String text = "hello0123456789hello0123456789hello1234567890hello3423243423232";
        int i =0;
        while((i=(text.indexOf(match,i)+1))>0)
            System.out.println(i);
    }
}

I have some big code but working nicely....

   class strDemo
   { 
       public static void main(String args[])
       {
       String s1=new String("The Ghost of The Arabean Sea");
           String s2=new String ("The");
           String s6=new String ("ehT");
           StringBuffer s3;
           StringBuffer s4=new StringBuffer(s1);
           StringBuffer s5=new StringBuffer(s2);
           char c1[]=new char[30];
           char c2[]=new char[5];
           char c3[]=new char[5];
           s1.getChars(0,28,c1,0);
           s2.getChars(0,3,c2,0);
           s6.getChars(0,3,c3,0); s3=s4.reverse();      
           int pf=0,pl=0;
           char c5[]=new char[30];
           s3.getChars(0,28,c5,0);
           for(int i=0;i<(s1.length()-s2.length());i++)
           {
               int j=0;
               if(pf<=1)
               {
                  while (c1[i+j]==c2[j] && j<=s2.length())
                  {           
                    j++;
                    System.out.println(s2.length()+" "+j);
                    if(j>=s2.length())
                    {
                       System.out.println("first match of(The) :->"+i);

                     }
                     pf=pf+1;         
                  }   
             }                
       }       
         for(int i=0;i<(s3.length()-s6.length()+1);i++)
        {
            int j=0;
            if(pl<=1)
            {
             while (c5[i+j]==c3[j] && j<=s6.length())
             {
                 j++;
                 System.out.println(s6.length()+" "+j);
                 if(j>=s6.length())
                 {
                         System.out.println((s3.length()-i-3));
                         pl=pl+1;

                 }   
                }                 
              }  
           }  
         }
       }

int match_position=text.indexOf(match);

This works using regex.

String text = "I love you so much";
String wordToFind = "love";
Pattern word = Pattern.compile(wordToFind);
Matcher match = word.matcher(text);

while (match.find()) {
     System.out.println("Found love at index "+ match.start() +" - "+ (match.end()-1));
}

Output :

Found 'love' at index 2 - 5

General Rule :

• Regex search left to right, and once the match characters has been used, it cannot be reused.

If you're going to scan for 'n' matches of the search string, I'd recommend using regular expressions. They have a steep learning curve, but they'll save you hours when it comes to complex searches.

import java.util.StringTokenizer;

public class Occourence {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    String key=null,str ="my name noorus my name noorus";        
    int i=0,tot=0;

    StringTokenizer st=new StringTokenizer(str," ");
    while(st.hasMoreTokens())
    {   
        tot=tot+1;
        key = st.nextToken();
        while((i=(str.indexOf(key,i)+1))>0)
        {
            System.out.println("position of "+key+" "+"is "+(i-1));
        }
    }

    System.out.println("total words present in string "+tot);
  }
}