Stefan, Your the man, thanks for the help, exactly the kind of thing I am after!
Cheers dude, On Feb 17, 10:24 am, Stefan Schulte <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 02:50:27PM -0800, Aaron Nicoli wrote: > > Hi all, > > > Been searching the net for a few hours now. > > I have a basic operation I wish to perform but, cannot find examples > > close enough to what I'm after to implement it myself. > > > This is what I want to do: > > > $version = '10.2.0' > > > I want to manipulate the string to make a new var ($cutversion), equal > > just 102. > > > For example in perl (since I know it): > > > $version = '10.2.0'; > > if ($version =~ /^(\d+)\.(\d+).*$/) { > > $cutversion = $1 . $2; > > } > > > Any help? > > There are not that many string manipulating functions in puppet itself > but you can always build your own [1] or have a look at the puppet-std > [2] > > However your problem can be solved with the build-in function regsubst > which can be found in the function reference [3] > > This should work (while untested) > > $cutversion = regsubst($version, '^(\d+)\.(\d+).*$', '\1\2') > > Does this help? > > -Stefan > > [1]http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_functions.html > [2]https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib > [3]http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/2.7.9/function.html#regsubst > > -Stefan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
