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jfmateos YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 4	array search May 2nd, 2008, 4:11pm   Is there any method for searching in an array? I mean something similar to string.indexOf()

sgsrules Full Member Offline Posts: 108 Texas	Re: array search Reply #1 - May 2nd, 2008, 6:16pm   loop through the array and compare it's content to whatever you're trying to find: int[] test = { 1,2,3,5,7,4,23,64}; for (int i=0; i<test.length; i++){  if (test[i]==5){    println("found 5 at index position: "+i);  } }
	Stephen Shepard (sgsrules)

eskimoblood Senior Member Offline Posts: 341	Re: array search Reply #2 - May 2nd, 2008, 8:17pm   Its much easier: http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/java.util/coll_FindInArray.html Note, that the array need to be sorted for this solution.
	Andreas Köberle {eskimoblood}

jfmateos YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 4	Re: array search Reply #3 - May 3rd, 2008, 9:04am   Thank you very much. I solved my problem using some code similar to sgsrules´ one.