Yes, that's what I was getting at. I ran out of time for more context.
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 4:46 AM, Martin Alfke <tux...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 <erik.gustav.da...@gmail.com> 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 <tux...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > On 10 Sep 2015, at 17:29, Michael Smith <michael.sm...@puppetlabs.com>
> 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 <tux...@gmail.com> 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
> > >>
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