string.search(regex)

Question

There any easy way look for and find first occur of a stringin java without using Matcher and Pattern classes.

On php and JavaScript exist string.search(regex), there any something like this on Java?

Obs:
I prefer using regex, but for now is a simple thing that I want, just take last filename (separing by dot), so I'm doing:

String get[] = string.toString().split(".");
string = get[get.length-1];

Shoud be easier:
string = string.search("\\.\w*

Answer 1

I'm not aware of a way to do that without importing regex classes.
But you can do this without regex:

string = string.substring(string.lastIndexOf("."))