Search in String Array in Java?

Question

How to search an array of strings starting with a keyword?

eg,

String[] str = { "abcd", "abdc", "bcda"};

when my search bar "a", it should show

abcd and abdc

when my search bar "abc", then it should be "abcd".

Answer 1

String[] strArray = {"abcd", "abdc", "bcda"};
for (String s : strArray)
    if (s.startsWith(searchTerm))
        System.out.println(s);

Change startsWithfor contains, you just want to look for containment.

Answer 2

You should check this method:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#contains%28java.lang.CharSequence%29