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Chad_Roberts_21's avatar
Chad_Roberts_21
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Nov 28, 2006

Dash in a data group list name

I recently wrote a few rules which referenced new data group lists, and things bugged out on me. (That's what I get for slapping new iRules into production without full testing, confident in my unders...
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Joe_Pruitt
Nov 28, 2006
Dashes in variables is allowed, but you need to enclose them in curly braces. Underscores are ok but TCL interprets the dashes as a special character and terminates the variable at the dash. To bypass this surround the name with curly braces.

$::{data-group-name}

Give that a shot and see if it works for you.

-Joe