Java String indexOf()

There are four variants of indexOf() method. This article depicts about all of them, as follows: 
1.int indexOf() : This method returns the index within this string of the first occurrence of the specified character or -1, if the character does not occur.

Syntax:
int indexOf(char ch )
Parameters:
ch : a character.

Java

// Java code to demonstrate the working
// of String indexOf()
public class Index1 {
public static void main(String args[])
    {

        // Initialising String
        String gfg = new String("Welcome to geeksforgeeks");

        System.out.print("Found g first at position : ");

        // Initial index of 'g' will print
        // prints 11
        System.out.println(gfg.indexOf('g'));
    }
}

Output

Found g first at position : 11

2. int indexOf(char ch, int strt ) : This method returns the index within this string of the first occurrence of the specified character, starting the search at the specified index or -1, if the character does not occur.

Syntax:
int indexOf(char ch, int strt)
Parameters:
ch :a character.
strt : the index to start the search from.

Java

// Java code to demonstrate the working
// of String indexOf(char ch, int strt)
public class Index2 {
public static void main(String args[])
    {

        // Initialising String
        String gfg = new String("Welcome to geeksforgeeks");

        System.out.print("Found g after 13th index at position : ");

        // 2nd index of 'g' will print
        // prints 19
        System.out.println(gfg.indexOf('g', 13));
    }
}

Output

Found g after 13th index at position : 19

3.int indexOf(String str) : This method returns the index within this string of the first occurrence of the specified substring. If it does not occur as a substring, -1 is returned.

Syntax:
int indexOf(String str)
Parameters:
str : a string.

Java

// Java code to demonstrate the working
// of String indexOf(String str)
public class Index3 {
public static void main(String args[])
    {

        // Initialising string
        String Str = new String("Welcome to geeksforgeeks");

        // Initialising search string
        String subst = new String("geeks");

        // print the index of initial character
        // of Substring
        // prints 11
        System.out.print("Found geeks starting at position : ");
        System.out.print(Str.indexOf(subst));
    }
}

Output

Found geeks starting at position : 11

4. int indexOf(String str, int strt) : This method returns the index within this string of the first occurrence of the specified substring, starting at the specified index. If it does not occur, -1 is returned. 

Syntax:
int indexOf(String str, int strt)
Parameters:
strt: the index to start the search from.
str : a string.
 

Java

// Java code to demonstrate the working
// of String indexOf(String str, int strt)
public class Index4 {
public static void main(String args[])
    {

        // Initialising string
        String Str = new String("Welcome to geeksforgeeks");

        // Initialising search string
        String subst = new String("geeks");

        // print the index of initial character
        // of Substring after 14th position
        // prints 19
        System.out.print("Found geeks(after 14th index) starting at position : ");
        System.out.print(Str.indexOf(subst, 14));
    }
}

Output

Found geeks(after 14th index) starting at position : 19

Some related applications:

• Finding out if a given character (maybe anything upper or lower case) is a vowel or consonant. 
  Implementation is given below: 
  

JAVA

class Vowels
{
        // function to check if the passed
        // character is a vowel
    public static boolean vowel(char c)
    {
        return "aeiouAEIOU".indexOf(c)>=0;
    }

        // Driver program
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        boolean isVowel = vowel('a');

                // Printing the output
                if(isVowel)
            System.out.println("Vowel");
        else
            System.out.println("Consonant");
    }
}

// This code is contributed by debjitdbb

Output

Vowel

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