One thing that makes good code good is the clarity with which it conveys the intent of the original programmer to maintainers, and the proper choice of ``++indexOf++`` methods can help move code from confusing to clear.


If you need to see whether a substring is located beyond a certain point in a string, you can test the ``++indexOf++`` the substring versus the target point, or you can use the version of ``++indexOf++`` which takes a starting point argument. The latter is arguably clearer because the result is tested against -1, which is an easily recognizable "not found" indicator.


== Noncompliant Code Example

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String name = "ismael";

if (name.indexOf("ae") > 2) { // Noncompliant
  // ...
}
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== Compliant Solution

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String name = "ismael";

if (name.indexOf("ae", 2) > -1) {
  // ...
}
----



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