Here are an example how to parse on a byte array. This is performance and memory optimized.

/**
* Class to parse on byte[] or String.
* @author Markus Enck
*/
public class ParserTools {
 
       /**
       * Returns the index within the specified byte[] "buffer" of
       * the first occurrence of the specified byte[] "sequence". The
       * first byte[] has index 0. The index is the begin of the
       * byte[] "sequence". This method is memory and performance
       * optimized compared to doing same operation on a String
       * 
       * @param buffer         byte[] to parse on
       * @param sequence       byte[] containing the sequence
       * @param offset         offset
       * @return return the index of the sequence in the buffer or
       *          -1 if sequence isn't found
       */
       public static int indexOf(byte[] buffer, byte[] sequence, int offset){
             int index = -1;
             for (int i = offset; i < buffer.length;) {
              for (int j = 0; j < sequence.length && i < buffer.length; j++){
                    if (buffer[i++] != sequence[j])
                    break;
                    else if (j == sequence.length - 1) {
                    return i - ++j;
                    }
              }
             }
             return index;
       }
}