Jira (PUP-2612) Puppet Split function fails

[Henrik Lindberg (JIRA)]

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Henrik Lindberg commented on an issue   Re: Puppet Split function fails The issue here is that single quoted string did not use to support escaping an escape (with other problems as a consequence. Single string a double quoted string now behaves the same way wrt escapes (backslahes). The problem you are seeing has nothing to do with the split function, it is the string that is being used as input to regsubst that is wrong. Change it to: $ports_string = regsubst($ports_regex, '\\\\\\|', ',', 'G') You need 3 backslashes in the resulting string used to construct the regexp if you want a regexp that replaces a sequence of one backslash followed by pipe (to be replaced with a comma). To get 3 backslashes in the string you need 6 backslashes in the source text string (which results in 3 backslashes in the internal string, which is what is used to construct the regexp). I am updating the title of this issue to better reflect the problem (and closing with a won't fix as it works as intended). Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-2612 Puppet Split function fails {code} puppet apply --parser future --debug --verbose c:/site.pp $ports_regex = "80\\|443" $ports_string = regsubst($ports_regex, '\\\|', ',', 'G') notify{"CP1 ${ports_string}":} $ports_array = split($ports_string, ',') notify{"CP2 ${ports_array}":} each($ports_array) |$port| {   notify{"CP3 ${port}":}   file {"${port}": pat... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.