Java indexOf method for multiple matches in String

There's a another version of indexOf method, taking fromIndex as parameter.
So, you can call it in a loop, each time passing prevPosition + 1 as a second parameter.

Documentation:
http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#indexOf(int, int)

There is a second variant of the indexOf method, which takes a start-index as a parameter.

i = str.indexOf('x');
while(i >= 0) {
     System.out.println(i);
     i = str.indexOf('x', i+1);
}