java字符串第n个字符,如何在字符串中找到第n个字符？

Similar to a question posted here, am looking

for a solution in Java.

That is, how to find the index of nth occurrence of a character/string from a string?

Example: "/folder1/folder2/folder3/".

In this case, if I ask for 3rd occurrence of slash (/), it appears before folder3, and I expect to return this index position. My actual intention is to substring it from nth occurrence of a character.

Is there any convenient/ready-to-use method available in Java API or do we need to write a small logic on our own to solve this?

Also,

I quickly searched whether any method is supported for this purpose at Apache Commons Lang's StringUtils, but I don't find any.

Can regular expressions help in this regard?

解决方案

If your project already depends on Apache Commons you can use StringUtils.ordinalIndexOf, otherwise, here's an implementation:

public static int ordinalIndexOf(String str, String substr, int n) {

int pos = str.indexOf(substr);

while (--n > 0 && pos != -1)

pos = str.indexOf(substr, pos + 1);

return pos;

}

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