I based my bad first ruby code on http://www.devco.net/archives/2008/04/17/easy_per-machine_custom_facts_ for_puppet.php
I just checked the URL, and Volcane admits the code was bad too - so have a look at http://www.devco.net/archives/2008/06/16/rework_of_puppet_facts_for_etcfactstxt.php John On 12 August 2010 14:33, Patrick Mohr <kc7...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm making a provider for cups and I need to parse a string into arbitrary > key/value pairs. The string looks like this: > > printer-make-and-model='Brother HL-2060 Foomatic/hpijs-pcl5e (recommended)' > printer-state=3 printer-state-change-time=1266621145 > printer-state-reasons=none printer-type=8564756 > > I know almost no ruby. Any advice for what functions or data structures I > want to use? It looks like "split" might be what I want to use for parsing, > but the quoted strings will give me trouble. For the first version, I'm > only using 3 of the values. Do I just want to pull out those manually > instead of parsing the whole string? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- John Warburton Ph: 0417 299 600 Email: jwarbur...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
