Puppet users - Mar 2012 - How to have multi-line external variables ? Failed with extlookup and Dashboard

Is there a way to be able to externalize multi-line variable (eg to
contain pem keys, etc...), to be used like

    file { "/tmp/alex":
        content => $::alex  # In dashboard: alex = line1\nline2
    }
    file { "/tmp/alex2":
        content => extlookup(''alex'')  # alex,line1\nline2
    }

I tried to set a variable with line1\nline2 in dashboard and in
extlookup, but both failed to interpret it and wrote it litterally. Is
there another way ? Maybe with Hiera (sadly it is not yet integrated
in the Puppet RPM)

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Found out that a CSV file with value like

    alex,"line1
    line2"

will do the trick, but

    alex,"line1
    line2
    \"line3"

will not work and

    alex,"line1
    line2
    ""line3"

will work


On Mar 1, 4:58 pm, Alexandre <alexandre.fou...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Is there a way to be able to externalize multi-line variable (eg to
> contain pem keys, etc...), to be used like
>
>     file { "/tmp/alex":
>         content => $::alex  # In dashboard: alex = line1\nline2
>     }
>     file { "/tmp/alex2":
>         content => extlookup(''alex'')  #
alex,line1\nline2
>     }
>
> I tried to set a variable with line1\nline2 in dashboard and in
> extlookup, but both failed to interpret it and wrote it litterally. Is
> there another way ? Maybe with Hiera (sadly it is not yet integrated
> in the Puppet RPM)
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