/** the StringSearcing class compareTo, indexOf */ import java.util.Scanner; public class StringSearching { public static void main(String[] args) { String name="John Doe"; String name1 = "abcdooooa;jdfklsjdoooa;o o a;jfldj o o o o o o ooooozzz";// "John Doe"; System.out.println("name1 is " + name1); String name2 = "Alice"; System.out.println("name2 is " + name2); String name3= "John Q. Adams"; System.out.println("name3 is " + name3); if (name1.compareTo(name3)<0) System.out.println(name1 + " should come before " + name3); // print initials of name (some pple have 2 initial and some have 3) System.out.println("First initial is: " + name1.charAt(0)); int loc = name1.indexOf(' '); System.out.println("loc of space is " + loc + ", last name initial is: " + name1.charAt(loc+1)); // check if there is a middle initial -- you can count # of spaces System.out.println("About to execute LOOP: "); int countos = 0; loc = name1.indexOf('o', 0); while (loc != -1) { countos++; System.out.print(loc + ", "); loc = name1.indexOf('o', loc+1); } System.out.println("\nWe found " + countos + " little o's in the string " + name1); // now we will do the same thing using a for loop countos=0; for (int i=0; i