Issue #7529 has been updated by Deven Phillips.
I had a similar situation today with the augeas provider:
<pre>
augeas { "main-$device" :
context => "/files/etc/network/interfaces",
changes => [
"set auto[child::1 = $device]/1
$device",
"set iface[. = \'$device\'] $device",
"set iface[. = \'$device\']/family
inet",
"set iface[. = \'$device\']/method
static",
"set iface[. = \'$device\']/address
$ipaddr",
"set iface[. = \'$device\']/netmask
$netmask",
],
}
</pre>
The "set iface" locator string for $device needed to be single quoted, but the
regular variable did not. There is no documentation I am aware of to show users
that this might be needed.
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Feature #7529: Support alternative quotes for string literals
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7529
Author: Dominic Cleal
Status: Needs Decision
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Nigel Kersten
Category: language
Target version:
Affected Puppet version:
Keywords: language quoting
Branch:
Quoting can be an issue with Augeas resources, where strings in commands are
quoted but the value itself has to contain quotes. For example, to set the
value of a node to "bar" (with the quotes), one might do:
augeas { "myaug":
changes => "set Foo[. = '\"$bar\"'] '\"$bar\"'"
}
If the DSL supported some alternative method of quoting, such as [Perl's q{}
and/or qq{}](http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Quote-Like-Operators) or
[Ruby's %q and
%Q](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming/Alternate_quotes), we could
lose a level of escaping.
Perhaps the above example could then be improved to read:
augeas { "myaug":
changes => %Q(set Foo[. = '"$bar"'] '"$bar"')
}
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