MINOR: ist: add an iststop() function
Add a function that finds a character in an ist and returns an
updated ist with the length of the portion of the original string
that doesn't contain the char.
Might be backported to 2.1
diff --git a/include/common/ist.h b/include/common/ist.h
index 10c0b6c..0d8b457 100644
--- a/include/common/ist.h
+++ b/include/common/ist.h
@@ -708,4 +708,16 @@
return ist2(NULL, 0);
}
+/*
+ * looks for the first occurence of <chr> in string <ist> and returns a shorter
+ * ist if char is found.
+ */
+static inline struct ist iststop(const struct ist ist, char chr)
+{
+ size_t len = 0;
+
+ while (len++ < ist.len && ist.ptr[len - 1] != chr)
+ ;
+ return ist2(ist.ptr, len - 1);
+}
#endif