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diff --git a/doc/bird.sgml b/doc/bird.sgml index f933128c..89b1541c 100644 --- a/doc/bird.sgml +++ b/doc/bird.sgml @@ -1683,7 +1683,8 @@ prefix and an ASN as arguments. <sect>Control structures <label id="control-structures"> -<p>Filters support two control structures: conditions and case switches. +<p>Filters support several control structures: conditions, for loops and case +switches. <p>Syntax of a condition is: <cf>if <M>boolean expression</M> then <m/commandT/; else <m/commandF/;</cf> and you can use <cf>{ <m/command1/; <m/command2/; @@ -1691,6 +1692,14 @@ else <m/commandF/;</cf> and you can use <cf>{ <m/command1/; <m/command2/; omitted. If the <cf><m>boolean expression</m></cf> is true, <m/commandT/ is executed, otherwise <m/commandF/ is executed. +<p>For loops allow to iterate over elements in compound data like BGP paths or +community lists. The syntax is: <cf>for [ <m/type/ ] <m/variable/ in <m/expr/ +do <m/command/;</cf> and you can also use compound command like in conditions. +The expression is evaluated to a compound data, then for each element from such +data the command is executed with the item assigned to the variable. A variable +may be an existing one (when just name is used) or a locally defined (when type +and name is used). In both cases, it must have the same type as elements. + <p>The <cf>case</cf> is similar to case from Pascal. Syntax is <cf>case <m/expr/ { else: | <m/num_or_prefix [ .. num_or_prefix]/: <m/statement/ ; [ ... ] }</cf>. The expression after <cf>case</cf> can be of any type which can be @@ -1703,16 +1712,21 @@ neither of the <cf/:/ clauses, the statements after <cf/else:/ are executed. <p>Here is example that uses <cf/if/ and <cf/case/ structures: <code> +if 1234 = i then printn "."; else { + print "not 1234"; + print "You need {} around multiple commands"; +} + +for int asn in bgp_path do { + printn "ASN: ", asn; + if asn < 65536 then print " (2B)"; else print " (4B)"; +} + case arg1 { 2: print "two"; print "I can do more commands without {}"; 3 .. 5: print "three to five"; else: print "something else"; } - -if 1234 = i then printn "."; else { - print "not 1234"; - print "You need {} around multiple commands"; -} </code> |