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Find the earliest index of any of a set of potential substrings.

    
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/**
 * max: Removed methods that dependent on anything else than common.StringUtils.
 * 
 * <p>Common <code>String</code> manipulation routines.</p>
 *
 * <p>Originally from 
 * <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/">Turbine</a> and the
 * GenerationJavaCore library.</p>
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:jon@latchkey.com">Jon S. Stevens</a>
 * @author <a href="mailto:dlr@finemaltcoding.com">Daniel Rall</a>
 * @author <a href="mailto:gcoladonato@yahoo.com">Greg Coladonato</a>
 * @author <a href="mailto:bayard@generationjava.com">Henri Yandell</a>
 * @author <a href="mailto:ed@apache.org">Ed Korthof</a>
 * @author <a href="mailto:rand_mcneely@yahoo.com>Rand McNeely</a>
 * @author <a href="mailto:scolebourne@joda.org>Stephen Colebourne</a>
 * @author <a href="mailto:fredrik@westermarck.com>Fredrik Westermarck</a>
 * @version $Id$
 */
public class StringUtil {

    /**
     * Find the earliest index of any of a set of potential substrings.
     * Null string will return -1.
     * 
     * @param str  the string to check
     * @param searchStrs  the strings to search for
     * @return the earliest index of any of the strings
     * @throws NullPointerException if any of searchStrs[i] is null
     */
    public static int indexOfAny(String str, String[] searchStrs) {
        if ( (str == null) || (searchStrs == null) ) {
            return -1;
        }
        int sz = searchStrs.length;

        // String's can't have a MAX_VALUEth index.
        int ret = Integer.MAX_VALUE;

        int tmp = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < sz; i++) {
            tmp = str.indexOf(searchStrs[i]);
            if (tmp == -1) {
                continue;
            }

            if (tmp < ret) {
                ret = tmp;
            }
        }

        return (ret == Integer.MAX_VALUE) ? -1 : ret;
    }

}

   
    
    
    
  








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