match strings between delimiters

Check out 'split' and 'lsearch' commands. https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/irules-101-15-tcl-list-handling-commands

if { [lsearch [split $al_ctrl_parameter ,] $switch_app_pool] } then {
   do something
}

Hi Dan

Thank you first for answering but there is one more challange. As you can see:

al_ctrl_parameter looks like  TEST=myURI_A1,myURI,myURI_A2,myURI_A3&

So, with split

set testSPLIT [split $al_ctrl_parameter ,]

log local0. "testSPLIT: $testSPLIT"

araSPLIT: TEST=myURI_A1 myURI myURI_A2 myURI_A3&

I should only build a list between the = and & without them like:

myURI_A1 myURI myURI_A2 myURI_A3

and the $switch_app_pool variable could contain one of these but should exact match against just one.

I don't know how to achieve this... Would be great if you could help!

Thank you bb

@bigbrother - if your $al_ctrl_parameter is the query string from a URL request (ie, it begins with a "?" and is in the format of "?param1=value1&param2=value2&...." then you can use the URI::query command to pull the value for "param1", "param2", etc. You can then split the string into tokens with your delimiter (in your case it looks like commas). So, something like this should help

set query "?P1=V1&TEST=myURI_A1,myURI,myURI_A2,myURI_A3&P2=V2";
set test_value [URI::query $query "TEST"]
set value_list [split $test_value ","]

The contents of "value_list" should be {myURI_A1 myURI myURI_A2 myURI_A3}.

Keep in mind that if the value of $query doesn't start with a "?" then the URI::query command won't return anything.

Hope this helps...

-Joe

Hi Joe

Thank you for your response. No $al_ctrl_parameter is not form a URI query. It is just a variable I fill up from a cookie and it contains exactly "TEST=myURI_A1,myURI,myURI_A2,myURI_A3&".

So, I think URI::query is not the thing I need. Should be something that I can grab the string between = and & and then using split command.