Where is Java's Array indexOf?

I must be missing something very obvious, but I've searched all over and can't find this method.

Solution 1:

There are a couple of ways to accomplish this using the Arrays utility class.

If the array is not sorted and is not an array of primitives:

java.util.Arrays.asList(theArray).indexOf(o)

If the array is primitives and not sorted, one should use a solution offered by one of the other answers such as Kerem Baydoğan's, Andrew McKinlay's or Mishax's. The above code will compile even if theArray is primitive (possibly emitting a warning) but you'll get totally incorrect results nonetheless.

If the array is sorted, you can make use of a binary search for performance:

java.util.Arrays.binarySearch(theArray, o)

Solution 2:

Array has no indexOf() method.

Maybe this Apache Commons Lang ArrayUtils method is what you are looking for

import org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils;

String[] colours = { "Red", "Orange", "Yellow", "Green" };

int indexOfYellow = ArrayUtils.indexOf(colours, "Yellow");

Solution 3:

For primitives, if you want to avoid boxing, Guava has helpers for primitive arrays e.g. Ints.indexOf(int[] array, int target)