4 module Puppet::Parser::Functions
5 newfunction(:dirname, :type => :rvalue, :doc => <<-DOC
6 Returns the dirname of a path.
11 raise(Puppet::ParseError, 'dirname(): No arguments given')
14 raise(Puppet::ParseError, "dirname(): Too many arguments given (#{arguments.size})")
16 unless arguments[0].is_a?(String)
17 raise(Puppet::ParseError, 'dirname(): Requires string as argument')
19 # undef is converted to an empty string ''
20 if arguments[0].empty?
21 raise(Puppet::ParseError, 'dirname(): Requires a non-empty string as argument')
24 return File.dirname(arguments[0])
28 # vim: set ts=2 sw=2 et :