To check if string contains particular word

Question

So how do you check if a string has a particular word in it?

So this is my code:

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Answer 1

It's been correctly pointed out above that finding a given word in a sentence is not the same as finding the charsequence, and can be done as follows if you don't want to mess around with regular expressions.

boolean checkWordExistence(String word, String sentence) {
    if (sentence.contains(word)) {
        int start = sentence.indexOf(word);
        int end = start + word.length();

        boolean valid_left = ((start == 0) || (sentence.charAt(start - 1) == ' '));
        boolean valid_right = ((end == sentence.length()) || (sentence.charAt(end) == ' '));

        return valid_left && valid_right;
    }
    return false;
}

Output:

checkWordExistence("the", "the earth is our planet"); true
checkWordExistence("ear", "the earth is our planet"); false
checkWordExistence("earth", "the earth is our planet"); true

P.S Make sure you have filtered out any commas or full stops beforehand.