Actually if I remove the backslash the result is instead marcstest1.password='CheckingThis'
and if I shift the backslash to after the colon I get marcstest1.password='Checking:\ This' On Friday, 4 July 2014 14:28:09 UTC-4, Rich Burroughs wrote: > > Hi Marc, > > Have you tried removing that backslash? I don't think you need to escape > the colon. > > > Rich > > On Friday, July 4, 2014, Marc Whittaker <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I have run into an issue using puppet with hiera. The situation is I have >> the following in a yaml file >> >> - marcstest1.password='Checking\: This' >> >> When I try to fill this into a file using a template similar to below >> this is what gets put into the file instead >> >> # General Settings >> <% props.each do |prop| -%> >> <%= prop %> >> <% end -%> >> >> marcstest1.password='Checking\This' >> >> when the expected result is marcstest1.password='Checking: This' >> >> Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Puppet Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/b08b25d5-621f-467c-96a2-92a2cf9231e2%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/b08b25d5-621f-467c-96a2-92a2cf9231e2%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/fddcac35-1bc7-474d-b892-8450e2201e6d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
