[SOLVED] A direct way to get an index from an array?

[CJSLMAN]

Gang:
Is there a direct way to get the index of an element from an array (in this case, all elements in the array are different)? Maybe something like the "indexOf" used in strings?. I've searched, but haven't found anything. It sorta lookin like I'm going to have to loop through the array comparing against the array elements.
Thanks,
CJSL

[Fubarable]

You could loop through the array trying to match your object with each item in the array.

[CJSLMAN]

That's what I thought. OK... thanks... I'll cook something up and post it.
Thanks,
CJSL

[CJSLMAN]

Since there doesn't appear to be direct way to obtain the index of an array object, here's a piece of code that can be used to get the object's index:

public int getArrayIndex(int[] myArray, obj myObject)
 {
   int ArraySize = Array.getLength(myArray);//get the size of the array
   for (int i = 0; i < ArraySize; i++)
      {
       if (intDaPosition[i] == intDaNewPositionNumber)
        {
         return(i);
        }
      }
  return(-1);//didn't find what I was looking for
 }

Some comments:

• The method takes two arguments: the array and the object (int, string, etc) that is to be searched for in the array
• In this case the comparation in the "if" statement is for ints. If strings are to be searched then ".equals" or ".compareTo" should be used. Since I was searching for ints, I used "==" for comparing
• The method returns the index of the object within the array if the object is found. If not found it returns "-1"

[DarrylBurke]

If your array is sorted, you can use java.util.Arrays#binarySearch.

db

[CJSLMAN]

Darryl:
Unfortunately, the array is not sorted. Thanks for the tip anyway... will keep it in mind.
Thanks & have a nice day,
Chris