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

Here is a quote from Absolute Java, 1st Ed, by Walter Savitch:<BR>"Note that with a static method, the class name serves the same purpose as a calling object. (It would be legal to create an object of ...

package dustin.examples; import java.util.Objects; /** * Simple class to be used in demonstration of JDK 7's java.util.Objects class. * * @author Dustin */ public class Person { private String ...