Finding second occurrence of a substring in a string in Java
We are given a string, say, "itiswhatitis"
and a substring, say, "is"
.
I need to find the index of 'i'
when the string "is"
occurs a second time in the original string.
String.indexOf("is")
will return 2 in this case. I want the output to be 10 in this case.
Use overloaded version of indexOf()
, which takes the starting index (fromIndex) as 2nd parameter:
str.indexOf("is", str.indexOf("is") + 1);
I am using: Apache Commons Lang: StringUtils.ordinalIndexOf()
StringUtils.ordinalIndexOf("Java Language", "a", 2)
int first = string.indexOf("is");
int second = string.indexOf("is", first + 1);
This overload starts looking for the substring from the given index.