iRules Style Guide

Hi Jason, 

you may review your topic 10.), since it provides slightest false information. I assume you accidentially just mixed up || vs. && with eq vs == in on scentence?  

"eq" or "ne" is different from "==" or "!=". 

"==" or "!=" should only be used for numeric comparsions only

"eq" or "ne" should be used for string comparions.

Examples of the math behind == comparsions:

1 == 1.0 is true
1 == 0001 is true
1 == "0x0000001" is true
1 == "\n\n\n\t\t\t1.e0\n\n\n" is also true
1 == 1.000000000000000031337 is also true
10 == 012 is also true 

Beside of this using "eq" to compare "strings" is faster than comparing them with "==" (since no shimmering is involved).

The difference of || / && vs. "or" / "and" are not that huge. I consider the differences as personal preferecens... 😉

Cheers, Kai