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authorSteve Huff <shuff@vecna.org>2012-04-03 11:46:20 -0400
committerSteve Huff <shuff@vecna.org>2012-04-03 11:46:20 -0400
commit4732676548f91a43bc67ea0b70abdd34cae093c1 (patch)
treed818422bdcabd33f0b0a7aaf1a0ed2f0757994d9 /lib/puppet
parent1434f3cea6f6e2a1b939d91cb5ff66338cc87d32 (diff)
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add a "step" argument to range()
This patch adds an optional "step" argument to the stdlib range() function. There is no change to the default behavior of the function; however, passing a numeric "step" argument invokes the Ruby Range#step method, e.g. range("0", "9", "2") returns [0,2,4,6,8]
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/puppet')
-rw-r--r--lib/puppet/parser/functions/range.rb10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/puppet/parser/functions/range.rb b/lib/puppet/parser/functions/range.rb
index 6e85422..03ab9e9 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/parser/functions/range.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/parser/functions/range.rb
@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ Will return: [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
range("a", "c")
Will return: ["a","b","c"]
+
+Passing a third argument will cause the generated range to step by that
+interval, e.g.
+
+ range("0", "9", "2")
+
+Will return: [0,2,4,6,8]
EOS
) do |arguments|
@@ -28,6 +35,7 @@ Will return: ["a","b","c"]
if arguments.size > 1
start = arguments[0]
stop = arguments[1]
+ step = arguments[2].nil? ? 1 : arguments[2].to_i.abs
type = '..' # We select simplest type for Range available in Ruby ...
@@ -62,7 +70,7 @@ Will return: ["a","b","c"]
when /^(\.\.\.)$/ then (start ... stop) # Exclusive of last element ...
end
- result = range.collect { |i| i } # Get them all ... Pokemon ...
+ result = range.step(step).collect { |i| i } # Get them all ... Pokemon ...
return result
end