Java: Find index of first Regex

Question

I need to change a piece of code which includes this:

string.indexOf(\"bc\")

How can this be changed by a solution that skips the occurrenc

Answer 1

As requested a more complete solution:

    /** @return index of pattern in s or -1, if not found */
public static int indexOf(Pattern pattern, String s) {
    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(s);
    return matcher.find() ? matcher.start() : -1;
}

call:

int index = indexOf(Pattern.compile("(?