# # unique.rb # module Puppet::Parser::Functions newfunction(:unique, :type => :rvalue, :doc => <<-EOS This function will remove duplicates from strings and arrays. *Examples:* unique("aabbcc") Will return: abc You can also use this with arrays: unique(["a","a","b","b","c","c"]) This returns: ["a","b","c"] EOS ) do |arguments| if Puppet::Util::Package.versioncmp(Puppet.version, '5.0.0') >= 0 function_deprecation([:unique, 'This method is deprecated, please use the core puppet unique function. There is further documentation for the function in the release notes of Puppet 5.0.']) end raise(Puppet::ParseError, "unique(): Wrong number of arguments given (#{arguments.size} for 1)") if arguments.size < 1 value = arguments[0] unless value.is_a?(Array) || value.is_a?(String) raise(Puppet::ParseError, 'unique(): Requires either array or string to work with') end result = value.clone string = value.is_a?(String) ? true : false # We turn any string value into an array to be able to shuffle ... result = string ? result.split('') : result result = result.uniq # Remove duplicates ... result = string ? result.join : result return result end end # vim: set ts=2 sw=2 et :