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Apache Commons Lang 3.0 is a java library with lot of utilities and reusable components. This requires the library commons-lang3-3.0.1.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows using StringUtils.indexOfAny() API. It returns the first index of any matching search substrings in the given string.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/commons_lang/tests/strings/IndexOfAnyStringTest.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.commons_lang.tests.strings;



import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;



public class IndexOfAnyStringTest {



  /**

   * @param args

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    System.out.println(StringUtils.indexOfAny(null, "a"));

    System.out.println(StringUtils.indexOfAny("be the coder", "p", "the"));

    System.out.println(StringUtils.indexOfAny("be the coder", "co", "be", "the"));

    System.out.println(StringUtils.indexOfAny("be the coder", "ab", "xyz"));

  }



}

Index of Any String