strings: add LastIndexAny

The need for a LastIndexAny function has come up in the discussion
for https://golang.org/cl/3008041/. This function is
implemented analogously to lastIndexFunc, using functions from
the utf8 package.

R=r, rsc, PeterGo
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/3057041

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/pkg/strings/strings.go b/src/pkg/strings/strings.go
index f08b855999..8bf86dadd0 100644
--- a/src/pkg/strings/strings.go
+++ b/src/pkg/strings/strings.go
@@ -142,6 +142,24 @@ func IndexAny(s, chars string) int {
 	return -1
 }
 
+// LastIndexAny returns the index of the last instance of any Unicode code
+// point from chars in s, or -1 if no Unicode code point from chars is
+// present in s.
+func LastIndexAny(s, chars string) int {
+	if len(chars) > 0 {
+		for i := len(s); i > 0; {
+			rune, size := utf8.DecodeLastRuneInString(s[0:i])
+			i -= size
+			for _, m := range chars {
+				if rune == m {
+					return i
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return -1
+}
+
 // Generic split: splits after each instance of sep,
 // including sepSave bytes of sep in the subarrays.
 func genSplit(s, sep string, sepSave, n int) []string {