Jira (PUP-3333) Selector and case incorrectly maches strings as float

[Ranjit Viswakumar (JIRA)]

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Ranjit Viswakumar commented on an issue   Re: Selector and case incorrectly maches strings as float Spoke to Torbjørn at PuppetConf about this. Did some playing around: [root@master ~]# cat pup3333.pp notice("My bios version is ${::bios_version}.") $test = $::bios_version ? { '6.0' => 'This is wrong!', '6.00' => 'This is right', } notice($test) notice(type($::bios_version)) case $::bios_version { '6.0' : { $test1 = 'This is wrong!' } '6.00': { $test1 = 'This is right' } } notice($test1) notice(type(inline_template('<%= "6.0".to_s %>'))) [root@master ~]# puppet apply pup3333.pp Notice: Scope(Class[main]): My bios version is 6.00. Notice: Scope(Class[main]): This is wrong! Notice: Scope(Class[main]): string Notice: Scope(Class[main]): This is wrong! Notice: Scope(Class[main]): float Notice: Compiled catalog for master.puppetlabs.vm in environment production in 0.04 seconds Notice: Finished catalog run in 0.17 seconds Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-3333 Selector and case incorrectly maches strings as float Facter reports: kernelmajversion => 3.10 Running the following code: $somevar = $::kernelmajversion ? {   '3.1' => 'This is kernel version 3.1',   '3.10' => 'This is kernel version 3.10', } notice($somevar) produces output: Notice: Scope(Class[Main]): This is kernel version 3.1 It seems like Puppet is doing some magic type conversion and... 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.