The Java tutorial Java 101: Classes and objects in Java introduces the fundamentals of Java classes and objects, including how to declare classes, describe attributes via fields, describe behaviors ...

It's not terribly clean, but you could use indexOf() and check if it returns -1. Better than breaking out a loop.

All other string methods that I'm using (equals, compareTo) are working just fine. The only similarity between these two methods is that they use the pattern class but the string class imports any ...