On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 12:28:25PM -0500, Daniel V Klein wrote: >> That's good to hear--there's at least one other crazy person here! :-) > >That's me, crazy... > >> >As long as you're at it, you probably want a tolower() and toupper() functio >> n. >> >> And, left(), right(), substr(), length(), sprintf(), s///, and others. > >No. left/right/substr are from before regexp's, and should be shot.
Fair enough. >Length, probably not. Why? How is including this, or other "basic" (and convergent) functions a bad thing? >Sprintf, maybe. Only maybe. Ditto. >s/// no, because that breaks the whole convergence thing. I'm using "s///" to refer to something like regreplace() as we've talked about elsewhere in the thread, as opposed to the operator that modifies a variable in-place. Sorry for the confusion. >Cfengine is not a programming language - it may have some language-like >features, but it is not a programming language. Sure, but there are still cases where one needs to do fairly simple programatic things (like string munging), and having to punt and call awk/sed/perl/python/ruby for basic stuff seems foolish. If you need to do something really complicated, then a script/program is probably the way to go, instead of coding a mess of interdependent promises. -- Jesse Becker NHGRI Linux support (Digicon Contractor) _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
