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matt_wheeler_11
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Jul 18, 2007

Binary Scan help with an iRule

I am working with a customer where we are trying to grab specific content from a SQL response to create persistence. However, when the rule get to the line where I log line "0004 clientdata: $clientd...
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JRahm
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Jul 19, 2007
Most of the time I've seen variables in the RULE_INIT section defined with a leading double colon.


when RULE_INIT {
  set ::InsertService "0049006e00730065007200740053006500720076006900630065"
}
...
...
set svc_event [findstr $clientdata $::InsertService 52 ]
 If we see Insert Service set Persist
if { [string first $::InsertService $clientdata] != -1 } {

I know it has something to do with being a global variable; the programmers on the board could explain the details better than me.