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

To add to Arne's answer - if you wanted to also add indexing:

public static int indexOf(String regex, String s, int index)
{
    Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex);
    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(s);
    return matcher.find(index) ? matcher.start() : -1;
}

call:

int index = indexOf("(?