Help me about Searching for a Substring within a String

Hello everybody,
I have a problem like this:
Assume i type a sentence from keyboard: "I want to play football"
And computer will look for the word "football" to see if this word is in that sentence.
In this case, computer found it.
That is it ! Could anybody help me about this ?
Thank you very much in advance.
still_learn

Use the String.indexOf() method:
String original = "I want to play football";
int result = original.indexOf("football");
if (result != -1)
System.out.println("computer found it");
If the word "football" is in the original String, the indexOf() method will return the index of the word. If it does not find the word "football", it will return a value of -1. The String API is full of useful methods.
fitz

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