Substring algorithm

Question

Can someone explain to me how to solve the substring problem iteratively?

The problem: given two strings S=S₁S₂S

Answer 1

Though its pretty old post, I am trying to answer it. Kindly correct me if anything is wrong,

package com.amaze.substring;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class CheckSubstring {

/**
 * @param args
 * @throws IOException 
 */
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));

    System.out.println("Please enter the main string");
    String mainStr = br.readLine();

    System.out.println("Enter the substring that has to be searched");
    String subStr = br.readLine();

    char[] mainArr = new char[mainStr.length()];
    mainArr = mainStr.toCharArray();
    char[] subArr = new char[subStr.length()];
    subArr = subStr.toCharArray();
    boolean tracing = false;
    //System.out.println("Length of substring is "+subArr.length);
    int j = 0;

    for(int i=0; i