.lastIndexOf

[Tim Holmes]

I am trying to undestand what is going on here:

String banner = "One Man, One Vote";
int subInd1 = banner.lastIndexOf("One", 10);
System.out.println(subInd1);

I know that it is starting at index 10 and figured out that is zero based so it is starting at the "n" of the second "One". Then it counts backwards to find the the last occurrence of "One". The example I am looking at says it is "9", but if i count backwards like when finding the starting index, the "n" of the second "One" is zero and 9 is the "n" of the first "One". Right?

[Henry Wong]

but if i count backwards like when finding the starting index, the "n" of the second "One" is zero and 9 is the "n" of the first "One". Right?

No. The index of the characters doesn't change -- the index is the index relative from the beginning starting from zero. I don't know about you but it would really be confusion if the index is based on how the method is called.

Henry

[Tim Holmes]

Ah that makes sense...thanks!