add a "step" argument to range()

[hakamadare]

This patch adds an optional "step" argument to the stdlib range()
function. There is no change to the default behavior of the function;
however, passing a numeric "step" argument invokes the Ruby Range#step
method, e.g.

range("0", "9", "2")

returns

[0,2,4,6,8]

I've created ticket 13601
in Redmine to track this request.

-steve

[kwilczynski]

Hi,

+1

I've made some changes in the range function as per:

https://gist.github.com/2277148
https://gist.github.com/2277144
https://gist.github.com/2270106

I will add "step" to it as well :) Thanks for that!

KW

[hakamadare]

ok, that looks AWESOME (especially the third gist)!

[kwilczynski]

One think to mind -- this is not in the puppetlabs-stdlib yet :)

[puppetcla]

CLA Signed by hakamadare on 2012-01-17 21:00:00 -0800

[adrienthebo]

@hakamadare terribly sorry about the delay in getting this merged! We've been working through backlogged pull requests and getting everything merged in.

summary: merged into master in 928c131; this should be released in the next major or minor release of puppetlabs-stdlib. Thanks again for the contribution!