Finding second occurrence of a substring in a string in Java
We are given a string, say, "itiswhatitis" and a substring, say, "is" . I need to find the index of 'i' when the string "is" occurs a second time in the original string. String.indexOf("is") will return 2 in this case. I want the output to be 10 in this case. Rohit Jain Use overloaded version of indexOf() , which takes the starting index (fromIndex) as 2nd parameter: str.indexOf("is", str.indexOf("is") + 1); int first = string.indexOf("is"); int second = string.indexOf("is", first + 1); This overload starts looking for the substring from the given index. I am using: Apache Commons Lang: