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| author | Helen Campbell <helen@puppetlabs.com> | 2017-03-13 14:09:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Helen Campbell <helen@puppetlabs.com> | 2017-03-14 12:10:06 +0000 |
| commit | 2d9a94ebe827d88222c46af33416ae333ae102b2 (patch) | |
| tree | db8777d521b6d083c90f8f45e9ed1e9b14ccae4c /README.markdown | |
| parent | 70d071ba6fa3cf611e5dbdc1cba1343255edf978 (diff) | |
Addition of new length function
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| -rw-r--r-- | README.markdown | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown index a4c30b5..f9fc025 100644 --- a/README.markdown +++ b/README.markdown @@ -815,6 +815,10 @@ The return value is an array in which each element is one joined key/value pair. Returns the keys of a hash as an array. *Type*: rvalue. +#### `length` + +Returns the length of a given string, array or hash. To eventually replace the deprecated size() function as can handle the new type functionality introduced in Puppet 4. *Type*: rvalue. + #### `loadyaml` Loads a YAML file containing an array, string, or hash, and returns the data in the corresponding native data type. @@ -1067,7 +1071,7 @@ Randomizes the order of a string or array elements. *Type*: rvalue. #### `size` -Returns the number of elements in a string, an array or a hash. *Type*: rvalue. +Returns the number of elements in a string, an array or a hash. May get confused around Puppet 4 type values and as such is to be deprecated in the next release and replaced with the new stdlib length function. *Type*: rvalue. #### `sort` |