Puppet users - Oct 2009 - regular expressions do not work with selectors as shown in documentation

The documentation at:
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/LanguageTutorial#conditionals

says:
"""
Starting with version 0.25, selectors now support regular expressions:

$owner = $operatingsystem ? {
    /(redhat|debian)/   => "bin",
    default => undef,
}

In this last example, if $operatingsystem matches either redhat or
debian, then bin will be the selected result.
"""

When I try something like this, I get:
Syntax error at ''/''; expected ''}''

If I put quotes around it, it doesn''t act as a regular expression and
fails to match.  If I use just "RedHat" without a regular expression,
then it matches when the operating system is RedHat.

I''m using:
puppet-0.24.8-1.fc10.noarch
puppet-server-0.24.8-1.fc10.noarch

Is the bug in puppet or the documentation? Does anyone know the
correct syntax?

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OK.  I just noticed I''m not running version 0.25 as is glaringly
obvious from the contents of my email.  My mistake.  Sorry for the
post.

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Bryan Schneiders
<bryan.schneiders@gmail.com> wrote:
> The documentation at:
> http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/LanguageTutorial#conditionals
>
> says:
> """
> Starting with version 0.25, selectors now support regular expressions:
>
> $owner = $operatingsystem ? {
>    /(redhat|debian)/   => "bin",
>    default => undef,
> }
>
> In this last example, if $operatingsystem matches either redhat or
> debian, then bin will be the selected result.
> """
>
> When I try something like this, I get:
> Syntax error at ''/''; expected ''}''
>
> If I put quotes around it, it doesn''t act as a regular expression
and
> fails to match.  If I use just "RedHat" without a regular
expression,
> then it matches when the operating system is RedHat.
>
> I''m using:
> puppet-0.24.8-1.fc10.noarch
> puppet-server-0.24.8-1.fc10.noarch
>
> Is the bug in puppet or the documentation? Does anyone know the
> correct syntax?
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Bryan wrote:
> OK.  I just noticed I''m not running version 0.25 as is glaringly
> obvious from the contents of my email.  My mistake.  Sorry for the
> post.
Though if you want to try 0.25.1rc1, there are packages available at:

    http://tmz.fedorapeople.org/repo/puppet/

If you grab the puppet.repo file from

    http://tmz.fedorapeople.org/repo/puppet/fedora/puppet.repo

and save it in /etc/yum.repos.d, you can easily update via yum.

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