Re: Finding substring in character array

One of the classes in "my" application is responsible for reading
from, interpreting and writing to XML files. Until yesterday, I had
read the entire text from the file and created a String out of
it. Java's string handling operations come very handy.

 The problem is that some of the original files are really
large. The runtime system reaches a state where it's dry of heap
space when allocating a String for that kind of text. It works with
a character array instead.

 Now I lack access to the indexof method, finding the next
occurrence of a given pattern in a String instance. As this is a key
operation for identifying the right tag in the XML file, I need some
corresponding routine to find the spot where a certain sequence of
characters can be found in the char[] array. Is there such a
subroutine somewhere off the shelf? It doesn't seem to be
implemented in the java.util.Arrays package. Thanks in advance.