First off, you should use data types with your class and then you won't
have to check--the compile won't even succeed unless you've got the right
data type.
class foo (
Integer $subsetting,
) {
# $subsetting is guaranteed to be numeric here
....
}
Second, you can use the is_a
<https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/stdlib#is_a> function, or the ~=
equality matcher.
On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 8:28 AM Helmut Schneider <jumpe...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to check if a variable is numeric. The manpage says is_numeric
> is deprectaed and I shall user validate_legacy. But
>
> <% if validate_legacy(Numeric, 'validate_numeric', $subsetting) { -%>
>
> Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 500 on
> SERVER: Server Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a
> Function Call, validate_legacy(validate_numeric) expects a Numeric
> value, got String at
> /etc/puppetlabs/code/modules/bacula/templates/etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf
> .epp:25:7 on node bsdhelmut1164
>
> What is the proper way to check if something is numeric?
>
> Thank you!
>
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