Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: How to remove a string from an slist based off of a class.
Author: msvob...@linkedin.com
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23646,24104#msg-24104
+1
The negative lookahead using grep is counter intuitive. I think we need three
new functions.
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:09:37 -0500 Ted Zlatanov wrote:
TZ> On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:00:28 +0200 (CEST) neilhwatson wrote:
n> No, use a negative regular expression. Match things that are not 'Two'.
TZ> There are regular expressions that can't be practically inverted, and
TZ> even simple ones loo
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:00:28 +0200 (CEST) neilhwatson wrote:
n> No, use a negative regular expression. Match things that are not 'Two'.
There are regular expressions that can't be practically inverted, and
even simple ones look awkward. Could grep() support a "-v" flag?
Ted
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Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: How to remove a string from an slist based off of a class.
Author: Beto
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23646,23659#msg-23659
Small correction:
vars:
"test_list" slist => {"one", "two", "three" };
linux::
"linux_slis
Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: How to remove a string from an slist based off of a class.
Author: Beto
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23646,23655#msg-23655
err...sorry "Neil"
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Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: How to remove a string from an slist based off of a class.
Author: Beto
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23646,23654#msg-23654
Why do you want a new function when this is exactly what grep does? As neal
said , you need to use a negative lokah
Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: How to remove a string from an slist based off of a class.
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23646,23653#msg-23653
No, use a negative regular expression. Match things that are not 'Two'.
Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: How to remove a string from an slist based off of a class.
Author: msvob...@linkedin.com
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23646,23651#msg-23651
Hm. Thanks for the suggestion. So I would have to grep through all of the
strings that I wanted
Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: How to remove a string from an slist based off of a class.
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23646,23649#msg-23649
The grep function takes a regex which you could negate
http://cfengine.com/manuals/cf3-reference.html#Function
