Thanks, Mark. I realized I was doing this in four places (and update.cf
has it in 2 places), so now I know I can simplify those instances to
single function calls.

Justin

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Burgess [mailto:mark.burg...@iu.hio.no] 
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 1:32 AM
To: Justin Lloyd
Cc: help-cfengine
Subject: Re: classmatch+canonify vs. classify


Classify canonifies the literal string, but does not take regexes as
args,
but canonify would remove regexes, so the effect would be the same, as
you point out.

Justin Lloyd wrote:
> Stupid question: Is there any substantive difference between these two
> class definitions?
> 
>    "the_policy_host" expression =>
> classmatch(canonify("policy.domain.com"));
> 
>    "the_policy_host" expression => classify("policy.domain.com");
> 
> These seem exactly the same according to the documentation. I just
> wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.
> 
> Thanks,
> Justin
> 

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