On Sep 18, 2013, at 12:33 PM, Mike Reed <mjohn.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've been fighting a pesky regex issue and I was hoping somebody might have a
> solution handy. I'm trying to evaluate the hostname variable based on a few
> regex entries and apply some configurations accordingly.
>
> Here's what I've got:
>
> if ($hostname == '/^([a-z]*[-]\d{2,})*$/') or ($hostname ==
> '/^([a-zA-Z0-9])*$/') {
>
> another variant:
>
> if ($hostname == '/^([a-z]*[-]\d{2,})*$/') || ($hostname ==
> '/^([a-zA-Z0-9])*$/') {
>
> I expect the second option to work as it seems - according to my reading - to
> be more "ruby friendly".
>
> Has anybody used this syntax successfully in the past? Additionally, I
> suspect I could be bastardizing this as I'm not familiar with ruby.
>
> Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike
Since you're doing regex matching you need to use the '=~' operator instead of
'==', like so:
if ( $::hostname =~ /^foo/ ) or ( $::hostname =~ /^bar/ ) {
--
Peter Bukowinski
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