# # is_email_address.rb # module Puppet::Parser::Functions newfunction(:is_email_address, :type => :rvalue, :doc => <<-EOS Returns true if the string passed to this function is a valid email address. EOS ) do |arguments| if arguments.size != 1 raise(Puppet::ParseError, "is_email_address(): Wrong number of arguments given #{arguments.size} for 1") end # Taken from http://emailregex.com/ (simpler regex) valid_email_regex = %r{\A([\w+\-].?)+@[a-z\d\-]+(\.[a-z]+)*\.[a-z]+\z} return (arguments[0] =~ valid_email_regex) == 0 end end # vim: set ts=2 sw=2 et :