Allow comparisons of Numeric and number as String

Puppet passes numbers as String to functions, but it makes more sense to
compare them as Numeric.
But sometimes Puppet passes them as the wrong type, see:
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/19812

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/puppet/parser/functions/max.rb b/lib/puppet/parser/functions/max.rb
index 10b6f74..60fb94a 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/parser/functions/max.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/parser/functions/max.rb
@@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ module Puppet::Parser::Functions
     raise(Puppet::ParseError, "max(): Wrong number of arguments " +
           "need at least one") if args.size == 0
 
-    return args.max
+    # Sometimes we get numbers as numerics and sometimes as strings.
+    # We try to compare them as numbers when possible
+    return args.max do |a,b|
+      if a.to_s =~ /\A-?\d+(.\d+)?\z/ and b.to_s =~ /\A-?\d+(.\d+)?\z/ then
+        a.to_f <=> b.to_f
+      else
+        a.to_s <=> b.to_s
+      end
+    end
   end
 end