[%CFEngine_function_prototype(filename, comment, split, maxentries, maxbytes)%]

Description: Returns a data container (array) with up to maxentries fields from the first maxbytes bytes of file filename.

One dimension is separated by the regex split, the other by the lines in the file. The array arguments are both integer indexes, allowing for non-identifiers at first field (e.g. duplicates or names with spaces), unlike data_readstringarray().

The comment field will strip out unwanted patterns from the file being read, leaving unstripped characters to be split into fields. Using the empty string ("") indicates no comments.

[%CFEngine_function_attributes(filename, comment, split, maxentries, maxbytes)%]

Example:

Prepare:

[%CFEngine_include_snippet(data_readstringarray.cf, #+begin_src prep, .*end_src)%]

Run:

[%CFEngine_include_snippet(data_readstringarray.cf, #+begin_src cfengine3, .*end_src)%]

Output:

[%CFEngine_include_snippet(data_readstringarray.cf, #+begin_src\s+example_output\s, .end_src)%]

See also: data_readstringarray(), data