I assume that you can use the sprintf function (from Puppet core).
sprintf("%20.8s", "string test") #=> " string t"
On 04 Sep 2014, at 11:19, Jonathan Gazeley <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Another dumb question, but I can't find what I'm looking for. Does Puppet
> have a function that's equivalent to the substr() function in Perl? I want to
> truncate arbitrary strings to 7 chars but I can't see how to do this with any
> of the built-in functions or functions in stdlib.
>
> e.g. substr('hello', 4) returns 'hell'
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
>
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