For more information regarding the security incident at F5, the actions we are taking to address it, and our ongoing efforts to protect our customers, click here.

Forum Discussion

uni's avatar
uni
Icon for Altocumulus rankAltocumulus
Sep 13, 2007

Preventing interpreting variable as TCL

I have an iRule which is parsing the each field in a URI query. I am getting an occasional problem with a TCL error if $parameter starts with "-", as the interpreter assumes it is an option to the ...
application delivery
dev
devops
iRules
Joe_Pruitt's avatar
Joe_Pruitt
Sep 13, 2007
To include dashes in your variables, you can enclose the variable in braces and will tell the interpretor to treat the enclosed value as a single entity.

switch [string tolower [lindex [split ${parameter} "="] 0]] {

-Joe