// Find.java
// Prompts the user to enter a "word", then finds the index values
// where this word occurs in a larger, pre-defined String
// 7/15/2011 - Greenstein: Changed TextReader to Scanner
import java.util.Scanner;
public class Find
{
private String paragraph, word;
public Find ( )
{
paragraph = "Javajava javac javalin RJAva havajava JavA.";
word = "";
}
public static void main ( String [] args )
{
Find f = new Find ( );
f.getWord ( );
f.findAndPrint ( );
}
public void getWord ( )
{
Scanner console = new Scanner ( System.in );
System.out.println ( "\n\n" + paragraph + "\n\n" );
do {
System.out.print ( "Enter a word to search for: " );
word = console.nextLine ( );
} while ( word == null );
}
public void findAndPrint ( )
{
word = word.toLowerCase ( );
paragraph = paragraph.toLowerCase ( );
String original = paragraph;
boolean done = false;
int index = 0;
while ( !done ) {
index += paragraph.indexOf ( word );
if ( paragraph.indexOf ( word ) != -1 ) {
System.out.println ( index );
paragraph = original.substring ( index + word.length ( ) );
index += word.length ( );
}
else
done = true;
}
}
}
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