Puppet

Attempting to use the new if statements in 0.24.6, I found that numeric comparisons did not work as I would expect. An example:

$operatingsystemrelease = 10 # From facter
if $operatingsystemrelease > 9 # This is not true. Huh?

Thinking it might be comparing the facter variable as a string, try it hardcoded:

if 10 > 9 # Still not true. Odd.

if 10 > 09 # This is true.

So, is the comparison being done character by character or is it just doing string comparison? The examples in the documentation indicate that using numeric comparisons are intended to work (with examples like "if $ram > 1024" and "if ( $processor_count > 2 )" at http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/LanguageTutorial#if-else).

fujin posted a handy demo at http://pastie.org/318391