String’s contains method checks if sequence of characters can be found in String. It returns true if character sequence is present in String else return false.
Method Signature:
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public boolean contains(CharSequence s) |
String contains Example:
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package org.arpit.java2blog; public class StringContainsMethodExample { public static void main(String[] args) { String str = "Hello world from java2blog.com"; if (str.contains("world")) { System.out.println("String contains with world"); } else { System.out.println("String does not contain world"); } if (str.contains("WORLD")) { System.out.println("String contains WORLD"); } else { System.out.println("String does not contain WORLD"); } } } |
When you run above program, you will get below output:
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String contains with world String does not contain WORLD |
Please note that contains method is case sensitive as you can see in above example
