string_split
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Prototype: string_split(string, regex, maxent)
Return type: slist
Description: Splits string into at most maxent substrings wherever
regex occurs, and returns the list with those strings.
The regular expression is unanchored.
If the maximum number of substrings is insufficient to accommodate all
the entries, the generated slist will have maxent items and the
last one will contain the rest of the string starting with the
maxent-1-th delimiter. This is standard behavior in many languages
like Perl or Ruby, and different from the splitstring() behavior.
Arguments:
string:string- A data string - in the range:.*regex: regular expression - Regex to split on - in the range:.*maxent:int- Maximum number of pieces - in the range:0,99999999999
Example:
code
body common control
{
bundlesequence => { "test" };
}
bundle agent test
{
vars:
"split1" slist => string_split("one:two:three", ":", "10");
"split2" slist => string_split("one:two:three", ":", "1");
"split3" slist => string_split("alpha:xyz:beta", "xyz", "10");
reports:
"split1: $(split1)"; # will list "one", "two", and "three"
"split2: $(split2)"; # will list "one:two:three"
"split3: $(split3)"; # will list "alpha:" and ":beta"
}
Output:
code
R: split1: one
R: split1: two
R: split1: three
R: split2: one:two:three
R: split3: alpha:
R: split3: :beta
History: Introduced in CFEngine 3.6; deprecates splitstring().
See also: splitstring()