Given the following code fragment:
What is the outcome?
StringBuilder.indexOf(String str) returns the index of the first occurrence of str in the buffer's current character sequence, or -1 if str does not occur. Before the append call the buffer holds only "Java", which contains no occurrence of "the", so the call returns -1. After sObj.append(" the Great") executes, the buffer becomes "Java the Great", in which the substring "the" first begins at character index 5, so the second call to indexOf returns 5.
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