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iRule Maintenance Windows

A fun, but not well known, feature on BIG-IP is the Statistics Profile. This tech tip is the second in a series on how the Statistics Profile and iRules, when working together, can save time, product...
Published Apr 10, 2007
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So, if I understand right, doing string manipulation I would get "0908" for the variable cur_time. Will the octal thing come up again when the comparison takes place? I thought I read that TCL tries to do a numerical comparison first. You may still need to remove the leading zeros. I'm sure I know much less about TCL than you do...

 

 

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