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Asked: 2026-06-12T08:58:06+00:00

I need to search through a word document for a string, and return the

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I need to search through a word document for a string, and return the "offset" of the first character. What I am unsure about is how to account for newlines. If the document consists of:

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World.

What is the offset of ‘W’ – is it 2, since the offset of ‘i’ is 1? Or is it 3, because the hidden ‘\n’ could be considered a character? What if the document is using ‘\r\n’ carriage returns? Is there a standard way to deal with this (Java)?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The answer is normalization:

    test.replaceAll("\r", "").indexOf('W')
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