This solution works exactly as I was hoping for. Thank you Craig.
> On Jun 3, 2015, at 12:00 AM, Craig Dunn <cr...@craigdunn.org> wrote:
>
> The validate_* functions are designed to fail the catalog if the
> passed variable doesnt match the defined type, sounds like you want
> the is_* functions (also from stdlib) which return true or false but
> dont fail.
>
> if ( is_string($myvar) or is_hash($myvar) ) {
> ...
> } else {
> fail('not a string or a hash')
> }
>
>
> Regards
> Craig
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 6:26 AM, Jacob McCoy Wade <djsto...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am trying to find out how I can validate more than one type of data
>> structure for a given value in a manifest? In particular I would like to be
>> able to have either a string or a hash be a valid data structure.
>> Something like:
>> if ($myvar != false) {
>> validate_string($myvar) || validate_hash($myvar)
>> }
>> Does anybody know if this is possible to do?
>>
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