ordinalIndexOf() is a StringUtils used to get the index of the n-th (also called the ordinal value) occurrence of the search string within the given text.
The method returns -1 if the n-th occurrence of the search string is not found.
StringUtilsThe definition of StringUtils can be found in the Apache Commons Lang package, which we can add to the Maven project by adding the following dependency to the pom.xml file:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
<version>3.12.0</version>
</dependency>
For other versions of the commons-lang package, refer to the Maven Repository.
You can import the StringUtils class as follows:
import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
public static int ordinalIndexOf(final CharSequence str, final CharSequence searchStr, final int ordinal)
str: The text to search in.searchStr: The sequence to search.ordinal: The n-th value.This method returns an integer.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>org.example</groupId>
<artifactId>test</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<properties>
<maven.compiler.source>8</maven.compiler.source>
<maven.compiler.target>8</maven.compiler.target>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
<version>3.12.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<transformers>
<transformer
implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
<mainClass>Main</mainClass>
</transformer>
</transformers>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>The maven dependency for StringUtils is included in the pom.xml file:
Main.java
StringUtils class.text.searchStr.n value is defined.n-th occurrence of the searchStr in text is obtained using ordinalIndexOf() method.n is defined.n-th occurrence of the searchStr in text is obtained using ordinalIndexOf() method. As there is no 5th occurrence of searchStr in text, the method returns -1.