Re: [Condor-users] Error evaluating rank

[Daniel Forrest <forrest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bryan K. Wright wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> The answer was a missing pair of parentheses. I had expressions like:
> 
> OWNERBOOST = Owner == "user1" || Owner == "user2"
> RANK = 10*( 2*OWNERBOOST - 1 ) - LoadAvg + 20
> 
> but it really should have been:
> 
> OWNERBOOST = (Owner == "user1" || Owner == "user2")
> RANK = 10*( 2*OWNERBOOST - 1 ) - LoadAvg + 20

Almost, but not quite.  It needs to be:

RANK = 10*( 2*$(OWNERBOOST) - 1 ) - LoadAvg + 20

Note the "$(...)" around "OWNERBOOST".

> As Alan De Smet pointed out in "Administrating Condor", if you have
> expresions like:
> 
> 	TEN = 5+5
> 	HUNDRED = $(TEN)*$(TEN)
> 
> then the value of HUNDRED will be 5+5*5+5 or 35.  To get it to be 100,
> you need parentheses around the (5+5).

And (as shown) you need to have "$(...)" around the "TEN"s.

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