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Nov 23, 2011

"class match starts_with" behavior

My own testing seems to indicate that the return of [class match -value -- $var starts_with data_group] returns the value of the longest key, but I can't find any documentation to support this. Can a...
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Nov 28, 2011
Posted By nitass on 11/28/2011 06:24 AM

 

yes, it is internal.

 

Which means I don't get to see it. So this behavior isn't documented anywhere. This makes my life hard - I'm trying to sell an irule rewrite to one of our biggest internal customers that's dependent on this behavior, and they're not going to take a "well, trust me, I tested it" in lieu of "this is where it is documented by F5".

 

 

Thanks for validating the behavior, nitass.