Add a string(FIND) sub-command (#11795)

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Source/cmStringCommand.h b/Source/cmStringCommand.h
index 2a916b407f..9586449417 100644
--- a/Source/cmStringCommand.h
+++ b/Source/cmStringCommand.h
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ public:
       "  string(STRIP <string> <output variable>)\n"
       "  string(RANDOM [LENGTH <length>] [ALPHABET <alphabet>]\n"
       "         [RANDOM_SEED <seed>] <output variable>)\n"
+      "  string(FIND <string> <substring> <output variable> [REVERSE])\n"
       "REGEX MATCH will match the regular expression once and store the "
       "match in the output variable.\n"
       "REGEX MATCHALL will match the regular expression as many times as "
@@ -117,6 +118,10 @@ public:
       "characters and default alphabet is all numbers and upper and "
       "lower case letters.  If an integer RANDOM_SEED is given, its "
       "value will be used to seed the random number generator.\n"
+      "FIND will return the position where the given substring was found "
+      "in the supplied string. If the REVERSE flag was used, the command "
+      "will search for the position of the last occurrence of the "
+      "specified substring.\n"
       "The following characters have special meaning in regular expressions:\n"
       "   ^         Matches at beginning of a line\n"
       "   $         Matches at end of a line\n"
@@ -152,6 +157,7 @@ protected:
   bool HandleSubstringCommand(std::vector<std::string> const& args);
   bool HandleStripCommand(std::vector<std::string> const& args);
   bool HandleRandomCommand(std::vector<std::string> const& args);
+  bool HandleFindCommand(std::vector<std::string> const& args);
 
   class RegexReplacement
   {