iRules Style Guide

This article (formatted here in collaboration with and from the notes of F5er Jim_Deucker) features an opinionated way to write iRules, which is an extension to the Tcl language. Tcl has its own st...
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Jan 11, 2023

Hi Jason, 

looks good now, as long as the list i well created.

${e} escaping the list variable wont help if the list itself is brainlessly concatenated. Back in the days, I also used those "$a $b $c" and slightly later those psedo secure "\{$a\} \{$b\} \{$c\}" list creation skills. Those evil techniques can destroy on entire application logic very quick. 

Cheers, Kai