Jim-
Great example, and nice clear concise description - I will add a test to the
testing tool to check for this...
-Dan
On Dec 21, 2010, at 3:05 PM, Jim Lawson wrote:
> Hi help-cfengine,
>
> Happy winter/summer solstice (depending on which hemisphere you live in)!
>
> I am trying to create an associative array using strings containing
> spaces as indices. Problem is, it doesn't seem to work with getindices,
> although cf-promises doesn't complain about it.
>
> Here's some example code:
>
> ----
>
> body common control {
> bundlesequence => { "main" };
> }
>
> bundle agent main {
> vars:
> "myarray[entry one]" string => "One";
> "myarray[entry two]" string => "Two";
> "myarray[entry three]" string => "Three";
>
> "myarray_indices" slist => getindices(myarray);
>
> reports:
>
> cfengine_3_1_2::
> "a myarray index: $(myarray_indices)";
>
> }
>
> ----
>
> This returns: "R: a myarray index: entr" as opposed to what you might
> expect.
>
> Because it is possible to address arrays with these keys (e.g.
> $(myarray[entry three]) works) I assume this is a problem with
> getindices, but maybe array keys were not supposed to have spaces... If
> that's so, it would be nice if cf-promises raised an error if they were
> used.
>
> Since a frequent question is "what are you trying to do with this?", I'm
> trying to create an edit_line bundle in the style of
> "set_variable_values" from cfengine_stdlib.cf, using keys with
> whitespace in them, for editing files like /etc/security/limits.conf.
> For example:
>
> vars:
> "limits_conf[oracle soft nproc]" string => "2047";
> "limits_conf[oracle hard nproc]" string => "16384";
> "limits_conf[oracle soft nofile]" string => "4096";
>
> files:
>
> "/etc/security/limits.conf"
> edit_line => set_variable_values_whitespace("main.limits_conf");
>
> ... hopefully you get the idea. Thanks for any help.
>
> Best,
> Jim Lawson
> University of Vermont
>
>
>
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