How to get string index of JSONArray?

Question

For example I have JSONArray of strings:

["hello", "dear", "community"]

and I want to get index of "dear". How would I do that?

I am iterating over an array and want to check is array element in my JSONArray and get its index.

possible duplicate of [Where is Java's Array indexOf?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4962361/where-is-javas-array-indexof) — Laurent S., May 27 '14 at 08:55
@Charvee does JSONArray have such a method? http://developer.android.com/reference/org/json/JSONArray.html — , May 27 '14 at 09:09
See this I am using other jar.http://json-lib.sourceforge.net/apidocs/net/sf/json/JSONArray.html — Charvee Shah, May 27 '14 at 09:18

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered May 27 '14 at 08:57

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There is no direct way of getting that. Unless you loop through the objects and find the index for the matching string.

for(int i=0;i<arr.length();i++) {
            if("dear".equals(arr.get(i))) {
                return i;
            }
        }

answered May 27 '14 at 08:57

Hirak

I am iterating over an array and want to check is array element in my JSONArray and get its index. – May 27 '14 at 09:09
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@onskulis The code Hirak provided does exactly that. – Sascha Wolf May 27 '14 at 09:10
@Zeeker sorry I mean fast enumeration. – May 27 '14 at 09:16
@Hirak thank you for solution, sorry for misunderstanding. It works perfectly, just needed to use it as a function. – May 27 '14 at 12:39

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