String Comparision

[vimalaranjan]

String a = "my house is near the school";
String b = "He Went to School";

String c = JTextField.getText();

for example if String c = school i must display the both a,b lines on JTextArea

or if String c = house i must display only a lines on JTextArea

how can i do this in Java

[Junky]

Go to the Java API and read about the methods the String class has. One or more of them can help.

[mine0926]

What have you tried so far?

[nitishsp]

try something like this:

   String b = "my house is near the school";
        //String b = "my house is near the";
       // String b = "school is near the house";
        
        String c = "school";
        boolean match=false;

        for(int i=0;i<b.length()-c.length()+1;i++)
        {
            if(c.regionMatches(true,0,b,i,c.length()))
            {
                match=true;
                break;
            }
        }

        if(match)
            System.out.print(b);

[DarrylBurke]

try something like this:

Please don't.

@nitishsp: Please learn Java before trying to 'help' here. Your two posts so far are bad advice.

db

[nitishsp]

Please don't.

@nitishsp: Please learn Java before trying to 'help' here. Your two posts so far are bad advice.

Hey, what's wrong with the code?
It's working and with some modifications it can solve vimalaranjan's problem.

By "try something like this:" I meant to say, "Use regionMatches(), It may solve your problem."

[JosAH]

Hey, what's wrong with the code?

It is clumsy; better use the indexOf( ... ) method or the contains( ... ) method.

kind regards,

Jos