Looks for a character in a character array, starting from a certain position - Java XML

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Looks for a character in a character array, starting from a certain position

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/*/*from  w ww .  j  a v  a  2s .  c  om*/
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//package com.java2s;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {
        char needle = 'a';
        char[] haystack = new char[] { 'b', 'o', 'o', 'k', '2', 's', '.',
                'c', 'o', 'm', 'a', '1', };
        int start = 2;
        System.out.println(findInArray(needle, haystack, start));
    }

    /**
     * Looks for a character in a character array, starting from a certain position
     * @param needle   the character you're looking for
     * @param haystack   the character array
     * @param start      the start position
     * @return   the position where the character was found, or -1 if it wasn't found.
     */
    public static int findInArray(char needle, char[] haystack, int start) {
        for (int i = start; i < haystack.length; i++) {
            if (haystack[i] == ';')
                return i;
        }
        return -1;
    }
}

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