Question

I’m using string.contains(“string”) to look for partitions in proc files. Line examples would be:

   8       0 sda 64154 32861 2927936 1462960 222942 512949 5776720 4355320 0 1029440 5818130
   8       1 sda1 29613 26082 1943594 1077290 23561 82884 851560 423330 0 235650 1500640

I have a string array. Each line is a element of the array. As some elements are not usefull, I check for the partitions name in the line. If a line has the name of one the existing partitions, it will be parsed.

That’s why I cannot simple use string.equals; I can check if the line contains and then do some string manipulation with indexOf maybe, using then equals.

Thanks, sorry for not being clearer before.

Answer 1

Is this as simple as you trying to check if two strings are equal, rather than a containment check? If so all you need is:

if (text1.equals(text2))

instead of

if (text1.contains(text2))

If that’s not what you’re after, you need to be clearer in your question.

EDIT (after the question update): It’s still not really clear what you’re trying to do. It sounds like you may be able to get away with:

if (line.contains(" sda "))

as this will not match sda1. Basically, take advantage of the fact that there’s a space before and after the partition name, but there can’t be one in the partition name.