Kapacitor: Getting error while defining tick file - influxdb

I'm on my very first script with kapacitor. I've written a tick file. Following is the script.
stream
.from().measurement('cpu')
.where("cpu" == 'cpu-total')
.alert()
.info(lamda:TRUE)
.log('/tmp/cpu.log')
I'm defining tick file to kapacitor using following command
kapacitor define highcpu -type stream -dbrp telegraf.default -tick cpu.tick
Getting Following error
invalid TICKscript: parser: unexpected unknown state, last char: ':' line 5 char 14 in "info(lamda:TRUE)". expected: ")"
I'm not getting exactly going wrong. I'm sure there is nothing wrong with config and telegraf and influxdb.
Kapacitor version 1.3.1
OS: Fedora 22

Missing 'b' in lamda.
Should be: lambda.

Q: I'm not getting exactly going wrong.
A: Short answer, syntax error.
Unfortunately the parser for Kapacitor's TICK script is not that mature yet and you really can't blame them for it. This project is still a baby, hence these such of errors only appear during runtime.
The problem is with your lambda expression .info(lamda:TRUE). You need to tell the expression which field or tag to lookup its value.
A typical lambda expression looks like
info(lambda: if ("sum" >= 45000, '1', '0'))
info(lambda: "isPeakHour" == 'true')
Something to note here is that, there is no True or False in Kapacitor yet. 1 or 0 is typically used to represent boolean.
You might also want to take note of single quote and double quotes in TICK script.
Single quotes are string literals
Double quotes are references to a field or tag. Double quotes are
only used in lambda expressions.

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GNU make .env:6: *** unterminated variable reference. Stop

I have windows 10 and installed GNU Make 4.3 Built for Windows32. This is my first time using GNU make and it gave me an error like this
.env:6: *** unterminated variable reference. Stop.
my .env file contain
POSTGRES_USER="postgres"
POSTGRES_PASS="<MY_DB_PASS>"
POSTGRES_DB="<MY_DB>"
PG_HOST="localhost"
PG_PORT="5432"
SECRET_KEY="<MY_SECRET_KEY>"
DEBUG=True
ALLOWED_HOSTS="localhost 127.0.0.1"
You may think that you're saving yourself by adding quotes. And, if this variable is parsed by a shell then you are.
But, make doesn't use quotes. The value of a variable is the complete contents to the right of the equal sign (after any initial whitespace is skipped). So for example:
POSTGRES_USER="postgres"
If parsed by the shell, the value of the POSTGRES_USER variable is postgres because the shell interprets the quotes. But make doesn't interpret quotes so the above line results in POSTGRES_USER make variable having the value "postgres" (including the quotes).
Now for your issue. Line 6 of your file is:
SECRET_KEY="<MY_SECRET_KEY>"
and you don't show us the text of your secret key.
First, this is wrong even in shell syntax: you must use single-quotes here not double quotes, and even that will not be right if your secret key contains single quotes itself; you'd have to escape that.
However that error means that in your secret key you have the character sequence $( or ${ which make interprets as starting a variable reference: since there is no close paren or brace you get this error.
The short answer is, there's no portable way to use the same file sourced by both make and the shell if the values of the variable assignments contain any sort of special character (including whitespace).
Usually people do something like base64 encode their secret keys, so that those special characters are not a problem.

Subscript operator with variable or how to cut the end-of-line characters?

I have an expression in Jenkinsfile:
myvar = myvar.substring(0, myvar.length() - 2)
The goal is to cut the EoL characters from the string (which contains the execution result of the batch command).
Recently I've installed GroovyLint plugin for VSCode and it complained about this line:
Violation in class None. The String.substring(int, int) method can be replaced with the subscript operatorGroovyLint(UnnecessarySubstring-1)
I've googled what is that subscript operator and it looks like the replacement would be something like this:
myvar = myvar[0..myvar.length() - 2]
but unfortunately, it does not work: it gives no visible error, but also makes no changes to the myvar.
What do I miss? Maybe you can't use variables as part of the subscript operator?
Maybe there is a better way to cut those end-of-line characters? I guess I could use regexp, but to me, that sounds like overkill.
Thanks!
Thanks to ernset_k, found the answer!
The problem was that the subscript operator includes the upper bound. In my original scenario, last 2 characters where not printable and that's why I did not see the difference while debugging. I had to use "myvar.length()-3".
But as indicated by ernest_k, instead of calculating the length of the string you need to trim, we can also use other options of the operator. All these examples work as expected:
println myvar[0..myvar.length() - 3]
println myvar[0..<-2]
println myvar[0..-3]

Pipe character ignored in SPSS syntax

I am trying to use the pipe character "|" in SPSS syntax with strange results:
In the syntax it appears like this:
But when I copy this line from the syntax window to here, this is what I get:
SELECT IF(SEX = 1 SEX = 2).
The pipe just disappears!
If I run this line, this is the output:
SELECT IF(SEX = 1 SEX = 2).
Error # 4007 in column 20. Text: SEX
The expression is incomplete. Check for missing operands, invalid operators,
unmatched parentheses or excessive string length.
Execution of this command stops.
So the pipe is invisible to the program too!
When I save this syntax and reopen it, the pipe is gone...
The only way I found to get SPSS to work with the pipe is when I edited the syntax (adding the pipe) and saved it in an alternative editor (notepad++ in this case). Now, without opening the syntax, I ran it from another syntax using insert command, and it worked.
EDIT: some background info:
I have spss version 23 (+service pack 3) 64 bit.
The same things happens if I use my locale (encoding: windows-1255) or Unicode (Encoding: UTF-8). Suspecting my Hebrew keyboard I tried copying syntax from the web with same results.
Can anyone shed any light on this subject?
Turns out (according to SPSS support) that's a version specific (ver. 21) bug and was fixed in later versions.

How does groovy distinguish division from strings?

Groovy supports / as a division operator:
groovy> 1 / 2
===> 0.5
It supports / as a string delimiter, which can even be multiline:
groovy> x = /foo/
===> foo
groovy:000> x = /foo
groovy:001> bar/
===> foo
bar
Given this, why can't I evaluate a slashy-string literal in groovysh?
groovy:000> /foo/
groovy:001>
clearly groovysh thinks this is unterminated for some reason.
How does groovy avoid getting confused between division and strings? What does this code mean:
groovy> f / 2
Is this a function call f(/2 .../) where / is beginning a multiline slashy-string, or f divided by 2?
How does Groovy distinguish division from strings?
I'm not entirely sure how Groovy does it, but I'll describe how I'd do it, and I'd be very surprised if Groovy didn't work in a similar way.
Most parsing algorithms I've heard of (Shunting-yard, Pratt, etc) recognize two distinct kinds of tokens:
Those that expect to be preceded by an expression (infix operators, postfix operators, closing parentheses, etc). If one of these is not preceded by an expression, it's a syntax error.
Those that do not expect to be preceded by an expression (prefix operators, opening parentheses, identifiers, literals, etc). If one of these is preceded by an expression, it's a syntax error.
To make things easier, from this point onward I'm going to refer to the former kind of token as an operator and the latter as a non-operator.
Now, the interesting thing about this distinction is that it's made not based on what the token actually is, but rather on the immediate context, particularly the preceding tokens. Because of this, the same token can be interpreted very differently depending on its position in the code, and whether the parser classifies it as an operator or a non-operator. For example, the '-' token, if in an operator position, denotes a subtraction, but the same token in a non-operator position is a negation. There is no issue deciding whether a '-' is a subtraction operator or not, because you can tell based on its context.
The same is, in general, true for the '/' character in Groovy. If preceded by an expression, it's interpreted as an operator, which means it's a division. Otherwise, it's a non-operator, which makes it a string literal. So, you can generally tell if a '/' is a division or not, by looking at the token that immediately precedes it:
The '/' is a division if it follows an identifier, literal, postfix operator, closing parenthesis, or other token that denotes the end of an expression.
The '/' begins a string if it follows a prefix operator, infix operator, opening parenthesis, or other such token, or if it begins a line.
Of course, it isn't quite so simple in practice. Groovy is designed to be flexible in the face of various styles and uses, and therefore things like semicolons or parentheses are often optional. This can make parsing somewhat ambiguous at times. For example, say our parser comes across the following line:
println / foo
This is most likely an attempt to print a multiline string: foo is the beginning of a string being passed to println as an argument, and the optional parentheses around the argument list are left out. Of course, to a simple parser it looks like a division. I expect the Groovy parser can tell the difference by reading ahead to the following lines to see which interpretation does not give an error, but for something like groovysh that is literally impossible (since, as a repl, it doesn't yet have access to more lines), so it's forced to just guess.
Why can't I evaluate a slashy-string literal in groovysh?
As before, I don't know the exact reason, but I do know that because groovysh is a repl, it's bound to have more trouble with the more ambiguous rules. Even so, a simple single-line slashy-string is pretty unambiguous, so I believe something else may be going on here. Here is the result of me playing with various forms in groovysh:
> /foo - unexpected char: '/' # line 2, column 1.
> /foo/ - awaits further input
> /foo/bar - unexpected char: '/' # line 2, column 1.
> /foo/bar/ - awaits further input
> /foo/ + 'bar' - unexpected char: '/' # line 2, column 1.
> 'foo' + /bar/ - evaluates to 'foobar'
> /foo/ - evaluates to 'foo'
> /foo - awaits further input
> /foo/bar - Unknown property: bar
It appears that something strange happens when a '/' character is the first character in a line. The pattern it appears to follow (as far as I can tell) is this:
A slash as the first character of a line begins a strange parsing mode.
In this mode, every line that ends with a slash followed by nothing but whitespace causes the repl to await further lines.
On the first line that ends with something other than a slash (or whitespace following a slash), the error unexpected char: '/' # line 2, column 1. is printed.
I've also noticed a couple of interesting points regarding this:
Both forward slashes (/) and backslashes (\) appear to count, and seem to be completely interchangeable, in this special mode.
This does not appear to happen at all in groovyConsole or in actual Groovy files.
Putting any whitespace before the opening slash character causes groovysh to interpret it correctly, but only if the opening slash is a forward slash, not a backslash.
So, I personally expect that this is just a quirk of groovysh, either a bug or some under-documented feature I haven't heard about.

Building Latex/Tex arguments in lua

I use lua to make some complex job to prepare arguments for macros in Tex/LaTex.
Part I
Here is a stupid minimal example :
\newcommand{\test}{\luaexec{tex.print("11,12")}}% aim to create 11,12
\def\compare#1,#2.{\ifthenelse{#1<#2}{less}{more}}
\string\compare11,12. : \compare11,12.\\ %answer is less
\string\test : \test\\ % answer is 11,12
\string\compare : \compare\test. % generate an error
The last line creates an error. Obviously, Tex did not detect the "," included in \test.
How can I do so that \test is understood as 11 followed by , followed by 12 and not the string 11,12 and finally used as a correctly formed argument for \compare ?
There are several misunderstandings of how TeX works.
Your \compare macro wants to find something followed by a comma, then something followed by a period. However when you call
\compare\test
no comma is found, so TeX keeps looking for it until finding either the end of file or a \par (or a blank line as well). Note that TeX never expands macros when looking for the arguments to a macro.
You might do
\expandafter\compare\test.
provided that \test immediately expands to tokens in the required format, which however don't, because the expansion of \test is
\luaexec{tex.print("11,12")}
and the comma is hidden by the braces, so it doesn't count. But it wouldn't help nonetheless.
The problem is the same: when you do
\newcommand{\test}{\luaexec{tex.print("11,12")}}
the argument is not expanded. You might use “expanded definition” with \edef, but the problem is that \luaexec is not fully expandable.
If you do
\edef\test{\directlua{tex.sprint("11,12")}}
then
\expandafter\compare\test.
would work.

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