Bug ID 539847: VPE removing new lines in variable assignment expressions

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2

Fixed In:
12.1.0

Opened: Aug 13, 2015

Severity: 4-Minor

Symptoms

VPE is removing new lines in variable assignment expressions

Impact

It's impossible define multiline variable assignment expressions

Conditions

This occurs when creating/editing multi-line tcl code within APM for the session variables and saving the changes.

Workaround

Edit directly bigip.conf

Fix Information

Now Variable Assign support and preserves newlines

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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