# sm
[`sm` online tutorial ](https://arthas.aliyun.com/doc/arthas-tutorials?language=en&id=command-sm )
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Search method from the loaded classes.
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`sm` stands for search method. This command can search and show method information from all loaded classes. `sm` can only view the methods declared on the target class, that is, methods from its parent classes are invisible.
## Options
| Name | Specification |
| --------------------: | :----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| _class-pattern_ | pattern for class name |
| _method-pattern_ | pattern for method name |
| `[d]` | print the details of the method |
| `[E]` | turn on regex matching while the default mode is wildcard matching |
| `[c:]` | The hash code of the special class's classLoader |
| `[classLoaderClass:]` | The class name of the ClassLoader that executes the expression. |
| `[n:]` | Maximum number of matching classes with details (100 by default) |
## Usage
View methods of `java.lang.String` :
```bash
$ sm java.lang.String
java.lang.String->< init >
java.lang.String->equals
java.lang.String->toString
java.lang.String->hashCode
java.lang.String->compareTo
java.lang.String->indexOf
java.lang.String->valueOf
java.lang.String->checkBounds
java.lang.String->length
java.lang.String->isEmpty
java.lang.String->charAt
java.lang.String->codePointAt
java.lang.String->codePointBefore
java.lang.String->codePointCount
java.lang.String->offsetByCodePoints
java.lang.String->getChars
java.lang.String->getBytes
java.lang.String->contentEquals
java.lang.String->nonSyncContentEquals
java.lang.String->equalsIgnoreCase
java.lang.String->compareToIgnoreCase
java.lang.String->regionMatches
java.lang.String->startsWith
java.lang.String->endsWith
java.lang.String->indexOfSupplementary
java.lang.String->lastIndexOf
java.lang.String->lastIndexOfSupplementary
java.lang.String->substring
java.lang.String->subSequence
java.lang.String->concat
java.lang.String->replace
java.lang.String->matches
java.lang.String->contains
java.lang.String->replaceFirst
java.lang.String->replaceAll
java.lang.String->split
java.lang.String->join
java.lang.String->toLowerCase
java.lang.String->toUpperCase
java.lang.String->trim
java.lang.String->toCharArray
java.lang.String->format
java.lang.String->copyValueOf
java.lang.String->intern
Affect(row-cnt:44) cost in 1342 ms.
```
View method `java.lang.String#toString` details:
```bash
$ sm -d java.lang.String toString
declaring-class java.lang.String
method-name toString
modifier public
annotation
parameters
return java.lang.String
exceptions
Affect(row-cnt:1) cost in 3 ms.
```
