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Populate a variable based on results from query

dblackwe — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 04:30:21 GMT

So, IHAC who has a long naming convention. They include alot of short names for things. I have all my querys for getting cluster, and aggr, and svm, but they want to use abbreviated names in the volume name for those. i.e. cluster1 = cl1_, cluster1 = cl2_ etc etc.

Beyond having dozens of copies of each command and using if statements to run them or not run them, is there a more straight forward way of achieving this?

Re: Populate a variable based on results from query

sinhaa — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 11:02:03 GMT

If the customer has ( and they need to ) a consistent naming rule to obtain the short-names then this can be achieved using fucntions.

Full names: cluster1, cluster2

Short Naming rule: the first 2 letters of the name and the last suffix and an underscore

So abbrevated names as you said will be: cl1_ , cl2_

I can write a fuction to obtain the short-form names for this naming rule.

===

function returnShortName(inputStr)
{
int len = inputStr.length();
len--;
return inputStr.substring(0,2) + inputStr.substring(len) + "_"
}

===

Create a function with the above code and in your parameters for create volume, volume name field can call something like: returnShortName("cluster1") + "vol01"

So my volume name will be cl1_vol01. If you want add your Vserver too, just do it.

sinhaa

Re: Populate a variable based on results from query

dblackwe — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 15:21:38 GMT

Sinhaa,

That is very helpful.

Could you show me what a function would look like that does a complete replace? A bunch of if statements.

if $clusterName == Cluster1{

$clusShort=bob

}elsif $clusterName == Cluster2{

$clusShort=fred

}

David

Re: Populate a variable based on results from query

sinhaa — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 04:09:50 GMT

This is easier than the earlier:

===

function returnShortName_copy(inputStr)
{

if( inputStr == "Computer1")
{
return "bob";
}
else if (inputStr == "Computer2")
{
return "fred";
}
else
{
return inputStr;
}

}

=======

sinhaa

Re: Populate a variable based on results from query

dblackwe — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:25:00 GMT

This was exactly it. Thanks