Is there any way to know if an arraylist contains a piece of text?

Question

I have an arraylist with several items. Let\'s say they are: \"DARK BROWN\", \"BLUE\", \"GREEN\",....

Is there any way to look for if there\'s the string \"DARK\" in

Answer 1

Here is an example of a function you could use with getting each item. The speed of this is not really an increase. Due to this being an arraylist there is not really a good way to do this. There are better data structures for searching for parts of a string.

    public class RegionMatchesDemo {
public static void main(String[] args) {
    String searchMe = "Green Eggs and Ham";
    String findMe = "Eggs";
    int searchMeLength = searchMe.length();
    int findMeLength = findMe.length();
    boolean foundIt = false;
    for (int i = 0; 
         i <= (searchMeLength - findMeLength);
         i++) {
       if (searchMe.regionMatches(i, findMe, 0, findMeLength)) {
          foundIt = true;
          System.out.println(searchMe.substring(i, i + findMeLength));
          break;
       }
    }
    if (!foundIt)
        System.out.println("No match found.");
  }
}