Java's equivalent of InStr

[Kent]

Hi,

I need a function in Java that works the same as (or close to the same as)
the InStr function in VB. The InStr function checks for one string inside
another one and returns the character number of where the match was found.

All I need to do is check if one string exists inside another. Any ideas?

Kent

[Paul Clapham]

Kent <kentcb@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:3917ab2f$1@news.devx.com...
>
> Hi,
>
> I need a function in Java that works the same as (or close to the same as)
> the InStr function in VB. The InStr function checks for one string inside
> another one and returns the character number of where the match was found.
>
> All I need to do is check if one string exists inside another. Any ideas?
>
> Kent

Copied from the Java documentation for the String class:

indexOf(String str, int fromIndex)
Returns the index within this string of the first occurrence of the
specified substring, starting at the specified index.

The documentation has more detail.