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Jan Szafran
309 PointsString method "contains".
Hi,
I just finished the "Java basics" and I need a bit of help. There is this extra credit related to String method called "contains". I've searched the internet, but since my english isn't the best i still don't get it. Could someone help me and explain me that in a few simple words / simple code? Cheers!
2 Answers
Mohammed AlShaiban
6,455 PointsContains method is used to check if a string contains a sequence of characters, this could be one letter or few, one word or few words. lets say you have the following string
String example = "My name is Jan;
String firstName = "Jan";
And you want to check if your name is in the string, you would do this:
System.out.println(example.contains(firstName));
This would return true.
System.out.println(example.contains("Treehouse"));
would return false, since the string example does not contain the word Treehouse.
Jan Szafran
309 PointsThank You alot!