Re: [Condor-users] Wildcards/regexp in Rank expression

[Jaime Frey <jfrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 8, 2006, at 2:59 PM, Steven Timm wrote:

> I am trying to set a RANK expression on a set of 15 worker nodes.
>
> The following works:
>
> Rank = ((accountinggroup == "group_numi.rubin") * 1000) + 1
>
> The idea is to give group_numi.rubin leading priority over any
> other user on these nodes which are part of a much larger pool.
>
> But really what I want to do is to give any user in
> accounting group group_numi.* the same priority as rubin.
> (new users get added to group_numi all the time and we don't want
> to edit the condor_config file every time one comes along).
> Is there any way to put a wildcard into the Rank expression (or
> any other similar classad expression)?  Or should I go about
> it differently?

Soon, we will add functions to classads, including regexp (based on  
PCRE).

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