Find index of String in String array in Java

Question

I have an array

String[] values = new String[] {"AB","BC","CD","AE"};

I wanna find the index of the String BC. I know we can use indexOf for integers but wasn't able to find anything simple for string.

Answer 1

You can perform a linear search, like:

int index = -1;
for (int i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
   if (values[i].equals("BC") {
       index = i;
   }
}