On 12/5/14 3:16 PM, Lori Cho wrote:
I have two variables and I want to compare them to each other. However, the regex doesn't return true, because it seems to treat the variable in the // as a literal.Something like this: $variable1 = 'foo' $variable2 = 'foobar' if($variable2 =~ /$variable1/) { notify {"it works":} } else { notify {"regex did not work":} } root@test-slincsplunk1101r(~)# puppet apply /srv/tmp/test.pp notice: regex did not work notice: /Stage[main]//Notify[regex did not work]/message: defined 'message' as 'regex did not work' How can I do this?
The docs say it's not available. https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/lang_datatypes.html#regular-expressions
"Alternate forms of regex quoting are not allowed and Ruby-style variable interpolation is not available."
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