On Friday, January 25, 2013 5:26:13 AM UTC-6, emzvargas wrote:
>
> Hello.
> I'm kind of new with puppet and i'mhaving a problem using hashes with
> classes or defines.
> Here is an example of what im trying to do:
>
> $myhash = { key => "some value",
> other_key => "some other value",
> other_ki => "other other",
> }
>
> class test{
> file {"/var/tmp/$myhash[key]":
> ensure => "present",
> }
> }
>
> class {'test':
> }
>
> Result:
> Error: Invalid tag "/var/tmp/other_keysome other valuekeysome
> valueother_kipepe" at /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp:10 on nod
>
Puppet string interpolation does not recognize references to components of
compound values. Instead, you are getting interpolation of the whole hash
(coerced to a string). Do this instead:
class test{
$value = $myhash['key']
file {"/var/tmp/$value":
ensure => "present",
}
}
John
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