/*license*\ XBN-Java: Copyright (C) 2014, Jeff Epstein (aliteralmind __DASH__ github __AT__ yahoo __DOT__ com) This software is dual-licensed under the: - Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3.0 or, at your option, any later version; - Apache Software License (ASL) version 2.0. Either license may be applied at your discretion. More information may be found at - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-licensing. The text of both licenses is available in the root directory of this project, under the names "LICENSE_lgpl-3.0.txt" and "LICENSE_asl-2.0.txt". The latest copies may be downloaded at: - LGPL 3.0: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.txt - ASL 2.0: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt \*license*/ package com.github.xbn.examples.regexutil.non_xbn; import java.util.regex.Pattern; import java.util.regex.Matcher; /** <p>Using both regex and logic (non-regex), find a string that may overlap itself in a larger string--such as {@code "cdc"} is found at indexes 0 and 2 in {@code "cdcdc"}.</p> <p>{@code java com.github.xbn.examples.regexutil.non_xbn.OverlappingSubstringsXmpl}</p> * @since 0.1.0 * @author Copyright (C) 2014, Jeff Epstein ({@code aliteralmind __DASH__ github __AT__ yahoo __DOT__ com}), dual-licensed under the LGPL (version 3.0 or later) or the ASL (version 2.0). See source code for details. <a href="http://xbnjava.aliteralmind.com">{@code http://xbnjava.aliteralmind.com}</a>, <a href="https://github.com/aliteralmind/xbnjava">{@code https://github.com/aliteralmind/xbnjava}</a> **/ public class OverlappingSubstringsXmpl { public static final void main(String[] ignored) { String sToFind = "cdc"; String sToSearch = "cdcdcdedcdc"; System.out.println("Non regex way:"); int iMinIdx = 0; while(iMinIdx <= (sToSearch.length() - sToFind.length())) { int iIdxFound = sToSearch.indexOf(sToFind, iMinIdx); if(iIdxFound == -1) { break; } System.out.println(sToFind + " found at index " + iIdxFound); iMinIdx = iIdxFound + 1; } System.out.println("Regex way:"); Matcher m = Pattern.compile(sToFind, Pattern.LITERAL).matcher(sToSearch); boolean bFound = m.find(); while (bFound) { System.out.println(sToFind + " found at index " + m.start()); bFound = m.find(m.start() + 1); } } }