I ran into this too, use the literal function.
$ grep -rh literal hieradata/
testing::cwood1::param3: "%{literal('%')}{::hostname}"
testing::cwood1::param3: "%{literal('%')}{::hostname}"
https://docs.puppet.com/hiera/3.1/variables.html#the-literal-lookup-function
On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 06:20:46AM -0700, Simon wrote:
> Hi all
> does anyone know how i can escape %{ in hiera without it trying to convert
> to variable?
> i want to add the following to configure a syslog filter for logstash
>
> match => { "message" =>
> "<%{POSINT:syslog_pri}>%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:syslog_timestamp}
> %{SYSLOGHOST:syslog_hostname}
> %{DATA:syslog_program}(?:\[%{POSINT:syslog_pid}\])?:
> %{GREEDYDATA:syslog_message}"}
>
> problem is it will try and convert to variables so only shows the
> following on the server
>
> match => { "message" => "<> (?:\[\])?: "}
>
> i have tried all the methods i can think of, any help would be
> appreciated.
>
> cheers
>
> S
>
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