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

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Torbjørn Lium commented on an issue   Re: Selector and case incorrectly maches strings as float Thanks for your comments, Andy and Henrik. While it is true that there are patterns and work arounds regarding this issue, I must point out that the behaviour is not exactly intuitive. For someone like me who comes across this problem it is rather difficult to discover the workarounds, such as Henrik's regexp example. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is already a lot of code out there that will need to be rewritten for it to work in 4x. Why not change the parser to behave more intuitively? 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.