How do I do a partial word search?

[hrin]

Hi all,

I have a customer's name as an attribute of a reservation object stored in my vector of reservation objects. My current search only does an exact match of a customer name. How do I do a partial word search eg. if my customer name is danielle and I only key in dan, how do i get it to return danielle?

Hope to hear from someone soon! Thank you!

public void searchcustName(String custName, Vector v)
{			
       for( int i = 0; i < v.size(); i++) 
       {
           Reservation aReservation = ((Reservation) v.elementAt(i));
           if ((aReservation.getcustName().equals(custName))) 
        	 {System.out.println("Record "+ i + " "+ aReservation.getcustName()+" "+aReservation.getCovers() +" "+ aReservation.getSmoking()+" "+ aReservation.getDate()+" "+aReservation.getstartTime()+" "+aReservation.getendTime()+" "+aReservation.getComments());
        		 searchCount++;
        	}
}        		
       if (searchCount==0) System.out.println("The record of "+custName+" cannot be found!");
          else  System.out.println("Number of records found: "+searchCount);
        }

[customwoodtek]

Lucky for you (and all of us) there is a nice little method in the String class called conatins! SO something like:

"danielle".contains("dan");

would return true. Here is a link to the documentation of this method:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#contains(java.lang.CharSequence)

[sjalle]

You could also try the startsWith(..) method of the String class