add comphelper::string::indexOfAny()

to replace String::SearchChar()

Change-Id: If5476e94be1255247918584cf1923d408ad75064

2 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/comphelper/inc/comphelper/string.hxx b/comphelper/inc/comphelper/string.hxx
index cfa9ddd474f6..6e28895f7d90 100644
--- a/comphelper/inc/comphelper/string.hxx
+++ b/comphelper/inc/comphelper/string.hxx
@@ -285,6 +285,17 @@ COMPHELPER_DLLPUBLIC inline rtl::OUStringBuffer& padToLength(
     return detail::padToLength(rBuffer, nLength, cFill);
 }
 
+/** Find any of a list of code units in the string.
+    @param rIn      OUString to search
+    @param pChars   0-terminated array of sal_Unicode code units to search for
+    @param nPos     start position
+
+    @return position of first occurrence of any of the elements of pChars
+            or -1 if none of the code units occur in the string
+ */
+COMPHELPER_DLLPUBLIC sal_Int32 indexOfAny(rtl::OUString const& rIn,
+        sal_Unicode const*const pChars, sal_Int32 const nPos = 0);
+
 /** Convert a sequence of strings to a single comma separated string.
 
     Note that no escaping of commas or anything fancy is done.
diff --git a/comphelper/source/misc/string.cxx b/comphelper/source/misc/string.cxx
index d5e42468a88f..8af97dc75685 100644
--- a/comphelper/source/misc/string.cxx
+++ b/comphelper/source/misc/string.cxx
@@ -400,6 +400,22 @@ rtl::OString reverseString(const rtl::OString &rStr)
     return tmpl_reverseString<rtl::OString, rtl::OStringBuffer>(rStr);
 }
 
+sal_Int32 indexOfAny(rtl::OUString const& rIn,
+        sal_Unicode const*const pChars, sal_Int32 const nPos)
+{
+    for (sal_Int32 i = nPos; i < rIn.getLength(); ++i)
+    {
+        sal_Unicode const c = rIn[i];
+        for (sal_Unicode const* pChar = pChars; *pChar; ++pChar)
+        {
+            if (c == *pChar)
+            {
+                return i;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    return -1;
+}
 
 } }