The indexOf() method returns the index (the position) of the first occurrence of a specified text in a string (including whitespace):
Example
String txt = "Please locate where 'locate' occurs!";
System.out.println(txt.indexOf("locate")); // Outputs 7
Java counts positions from zero.
0 is the first position in a string, 1 is the second, 2 is the third ...
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