Searching the first occurence

[The Hawk]

Hi everybody,

i should write a methode, which gives the first occurence of a substring in a string with an index.

If the string starts with the substring so the index must be 0, if the substring does not exist in the string so the index is -1. If the substring.length is 0 so the index is 0.

The method is:

public static int getFirstOccurence(char[] str, char[] substr){
                  //TO DO
}

The strings are changed into the array. In this method we are working with arrays which have charakters. (I've already wrote the methode to change strings into the array...)

Can anybody help me? I don't know how to search an array, in an other array?

[JosAH]

Hi everybody,

i should write a methode, which gives the first occurence of a substring in a string with an index.

If the string starts with the substring so the index must be 0, if the substring does not exist in the string so the index is -1. If the substring.length is 0 so the index is 0.

The method is:

public static int getFirstOccurence(char[] str, char[] substr){
                  //TO DO
}

The strings are changed into the array. In this method we are working with arrays which have charakters. (I've already wrote the methode to change strings into the array...)

Can anybody help me? I don't know how to search an array, in an other array?

Better leave those Strings as Strings and use the indexOf() method (read the API documentation for the String class).

kind regards,

Jos

[The Hawk]

Thank you for your answer,

but this is an homework and i should do it with arrays. Is there any other ideas, or some tipps?

[dinosoep]

So we are solving your homework?
please, learn something...
but anyway make a for loop for al the charachter
check if the character is the first character of the searched string
if so, check if the next charachter of the string is the next character of the searched string
(another for loop)
hope this helps and that you solve youre homework by yourself

[The Hawk]

thanks dinosep,

i don't want you to solve my homework, it's only a little part of whole homework. I couln't do it. I needed some help. Every tipp can be really helpfull. :)

i'll try your tip. thanks again :)

[dinosoep]

ok,tell me if it works.

[JosAH]

The OP can smuggle a bit: look in the directory where the JDK is stored; it contains a file src.zip; it contains the source code for all the publicly avaialable classes. The source for the String class is also in there and that class contains the indexOf( ... ) method. Don't tell them I told you ;-)

kind regards,

Jos

[dinosoep]

thanks jos, what you told there was something i didn't know and surely are going to use
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