small helper function to check if a string belongs to vector of strings

[Alex Buts]

refs #5423 this is it

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[Alex Buts]

can be written more generic and nicer, but does what I need to do.

[Alex Buts]

refs #5423 this is it

Changeset: af851e67257a68a0c0576acef540261a7009b360

[Russell Taylor]

This shouldn't be necessary...... just use std::find in the <algorithm> system header.

[Alex Buts]

find is more generic but returns an iterator, and I use numbers, returned by this method, to cast strings to enums.

This may be unnecessary if the methodology, used in subscribing algorithms to factory is deployed but this request more work and I am a bit uncertain deploying C preprocessor. At the moment this simple and specific helper looks like the best solution for the problem I am dealing with.

[Russell Taylor]

You can do arithmetic operations on iterators. For example, if find returns an iterator, it, to the 3rd element in a vector, vec (i.e. vec[2]) then it - vec.begin() will = 2

[Alex Buts]

refs #5423 this is it

Changeset: af851e67257a68a0c0576acef540261a7009b360

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​6269