Dashes in classes?

[John Valdes]

Hello,

It seems that (in cfengine 1 & 2) classes can't have dashes in them.
Eg, if I try to limit, say, a shellcommands or editfiles to a class
which contains a dash:

  editfiles:

    123456-78::
      { /path/to/some/file

        AppendIfNoSuchLine "123456-78"
      }

cfengine/cfagent gives me an error like:

  cf:host:cfagent.conf:31: 123456-78:: is not an absolute pathname
  cf:host:cfagent.conf:31: parse error

Is this behavior intentional or a bug?  It seems to exist in both
cfengine 1.6.x and 2.0.x.  I couldn't find any mention in the docs
(though I might have missed it :) ) as to whether a dash ("-") has
special significance when used with a class name.  Assuming it
doesn't, then this seems like a bug.  If so, here's a simple (&
perhaps incomplete?) fix (tested against cfengine 2.0.3):

  prompt> diff -u cflex.l.dist cflex.l
  --- cflex.l.dist        Sun Jun 30 18:31:35 2002
  +++ cflex.l     Mon Jul  1 19:38:09 2002
  @@ -76,8 +76,8 @@
   function  [a-zA-Z_]+\([^)]*\)
   qstring   \"[^"\n]*\"|\'[^'\n]*\'|`[^`\n]*`
   item      [+]?[-.,!@a-zA-Z0-9_\200-\377]+
  -id        [.|!,;a-zA-Z0-9_\200-\377]+
  -classt    [.|!,;a-zA-Z0-9_()\200-\377]+::
  +id        [-.|!,;a-zA-Z0-9_\200-\377]+
  +classt    [-.|!,;a-zA-Z0-9_()\200-\377]+::
   path      [-:.,;/a-zA-Z0-9%_\200-\377]+
   varpath   [/$<][-.,;a-zA-Z0-9<>%@+:$*?(){}/_\200-\377]*
   varitem   [-.,a-zA-Z0-9<>$*?()={}/_\200-\377]*

John

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John Valdes                        Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
valdes@NOSPAMuchicago.edu                           University of Chicago