Facter Strings to integer.

[Paul.S...@barcap.com]

Hello,

If I want to do something like this:-

if $::lsbdistrelease >= 6.3 {

  SOMETHING

}

Do I have to convert lsbdistrelease from a string to a number with an inline template or some such ?

Thanks

Paul

[Alessandro Ogier]

Hi, you can use versioncmp(), it's a builtin function

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/function.html#versioncmp



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[尹川51web]

thanks ,that's help me, too!

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[jcbollinger]

Generally speaking, yes.  All fact values are strings, and the language docs specify that the behavior of the <, <=, >=, and > operators is undefined for strings.  For this particular case, however, Alessandro Ogier's suggestion to use the versioncmp() function is an excellent one.  Not only is it easy to use, but it still does what you (probably) want when you compare against, say, version 6.11.


John