Re: [Puppet Users] My hiera entries parse incorrectly

Thank you so much John, As soon I read your comment the light went on... On Monday, 7 July 2014 11:17:26 UTC-4, jcbollinger wrote: > > > > On Monday, July 7, 2014 9:18:07 AM UTC-5, Marc Whittaker wrote: >> >> Thanks for the suggestions Rich. >> >> I did try double quotes and the result if the

Re: [Puppet Users] My hiera entries parse incorrectly

On Monday, July 7, 2014 9:18:07 AM UTC-5, Marc Whittaker wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestions Rich. > > I did try double quotes and the result if the same so still no progress. > > Yours is neither a single-quoted nor a double-quoted value. It is an unquoted value with a single quotes somewhe

Re: [Puppet Users] My hiera entries parse incorrectly

Thanks for the suggestions Rich. I did try double quotes and the result if the same so still no progress. Hoping someone out there has a colon in their data and can point me in the right direction. On Friday, 4 July 2014 15:37:49 UTC-4, Rich Burroughs wrote: > > Ah ok. I was looking at this pag

Re: [Puppet Users] My hiera entries parse incorrectly

Ah ok. I was looking at this page: http://www.yaml.org/YAML_for_ruby.html Which is linked here: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/hiera/1/data_sources.html It seems to indicate that you don't need to escape colons in single quoted strings but maybe I'm misreading it. I don't think I've ever had a col

Re: [Puppet Users] My hiera entries parse incorrectly

Actually if I remove the backslash the result is instead marcstest1.password='CheckingThis' and if I shift the backslash to after the colon I get marcstest1.password='Checking:\ This' On Friday, 4 July 2014 14:28:09 UTC-4, Rich Burroughs wrote: > > Hi Marc, > > Have you tried removing that b

Re: [Puppet Users] My hiera entries parse incorrectly

Hi Marc, Have you tried removing that backslash? I don't think you need to escape the colon. Rich On Friday, July 4, 2014, Marc Whittaker wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have run into an issue using puppet with hiera. The situation is I have > the following in a yaml file > > - marcstest1.passwor

[Puppet Users] My hiera entries parse incorrectly

Hi Everyone, I have run into an issue using puppet with hiera. The situation is I have the following in a yaml file - marcstest1.password='Checking\: This' When I try to fill this into a file using a template similar to below this is what gets put into the file instead # General Settings <% p