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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/string.h | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/string.c | 26 |
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h index 9eebc66d957a..0f235e80d355 100644 --- a/include/linux/string.h +++ b/include/linux/string.h @@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ extern void argv_free(char **argv); extern bool sysfs_streq(const char *s1, const char *s2); extern int strtobool(const char *s, bool *res); +int match_string(const char * const *array, size_t n, const char *string); + #ifdef CONFIG_BINARY_PRINTF int vbin_printf(u32 *bin_buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args); int bstr_printf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, const u32 *bin_buf); diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c index 0323c0d5629a..e9c9db161d2c 100644 --- a/lib/string.c +++ b/lib/string.c @@ -631,6 +631,32 @@ bool sysfs_streq(const char *s1, const char *s2) EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysfs_streq); /** + * match_string - matches given string in an array + * @array: array of strings + * @n: number of strings in the array or -1 for NULL terminated arrays + * @string: string to match with + * + * Return: + * index of a @string in the @array if matches, or %-EINVAL otherwise. + */ +int match_string(const char * const *array, size_t n, const char *string) +{ + int index; + const char *item; + + for (index = 0; index < n; index++) { + item = array[index]; + if (!item) + break; + if (!strcmp(item, string)) + return index; + } + + return -EINVAL; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(match_string); + +/** * strtobool - convert common user inputs into boolean values * @s: input string * @res: result |