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

[Henrik Lindberg (JIRA)]

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Henrik Lindberg commented on an issue   Re: Selector and case incorrectly maches strings as float The semantics are that if both left and right values are strings and both can be converted to numbers, then they are compared as numbers. We have kept till behavior in the future parser to be backwards compatible. A simple workaround is to switch and compare against a string that cannot possibly be a number, or to use case options specified as regular expressions. case 'v3.10' { 'v3.1' : { notice "v 3.1 selected" } 'v3.10' : { notice "v 3.10 selected" } } case '3.10' { /^3.1i$/ : { notice "regexp 3.1 selected" } /^3.10$/ : { notice "regexp 3.10 selected" } } Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-3333 Selector and case incorrectly maches strings as float Facter reports: kernelmajversion => 3.10 Running the following code: {code} $somevar = $::kernelmajversion ? {   '3.1' => 'This is kernel version 3.1',   '3.10' => 'This is kernel version 3.10', } notice($somevar) Notice: Scope(Class[Main]): This is kernel version 3.1 {code} It seems like Puppet is doing some magic type conversion and t... 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.