I played around a little bit with the solution mentioned by Michael: one can use .each on an integer in a template this results in the same behaviour of .times in ruby.
On 11 Sep 2015, at 11:31, Erik Dalén <[email protected]> wrote: > You use the range function from stdlib to create an array. For example: > range(1,5).each |$x| {notice($x)} > > On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 at 10:41 Martin Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > On 10 Sep 2015, at 17:29, Michael Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Looking at the examples for the 'each' function > > (https://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/function.html#each) you can > > replace 'times' with 'each' and I think it'll work. > > each can be used on arrays. In my case the variable is an integer. > I want to print stuff $i times into the final file. > > > > > On Sep 10, 2015, at 4:34 AM, Martin Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> is there a way to iterate with the ruby .times function inside an EPP > >> template? > >> > >> e.g. > >> <% $i.times |$x| { -%> > >> i = <%= $x +1 %> > >> <% } -%> > >> The code above seems to need a puppet4 function with name “times”. > >> Result: > >> Error: Evaluation Error: Unknown function: 'times'. > >> > >> When changing to ruby code style another error occurs: > >> <% $i.times do |$x| -%> > >> i = <%= $x +1 %> > >> <% end -%> > >> Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, epp(): > >> Invalid EPP: Syntax error at ‘|' > >> > >> thanks, > >> Martin > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "Puppet Developers" 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-dev/4F22DF3E-4CD3-410E-B602-BD5B94CE089A%40gmail.com. > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Puppet Developers" 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-dev/3B71678C-05FD-4E4B-B608-EC4A769A2CDB%40puppetlabs.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" 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-dev/238A23C7-A1D5-4E09-830E-A4F49142E43F%40gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" 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-dev/CAAAzDLc5utqECijD-Zd%2BAUVTbbHC61hxuO%2BxNNT2ovmbzHApuw%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" 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-dev/336732C8-90EB-45E9-BD20-B34B0B4E1537%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
