How to find how many times does a string object repeat in java?

Question

I have to String objects:

String first = \"/Some object that has a loop in it object/\";
String second = \"object\";

What I need to do is find

Answer 1

The simplest way is to use indexOf in a loop, advancing the starting index each time that you find the word:

int ind = 0;
int cnt = 0;
while (true) {
    int pos = first.indexOf(second, ind);
    if (pos < 0) break;
    cnt++;
    ind = pos + 1; // Advance by second.length() to avoid self repetitions
}
System.out.println(cnt);

This will find the word multiple times if a word contains self-repetitions. See the comment above to avoid such "duplicate" finds.

Demo on ideone.