Jenkins Pipeline string and for-loop

I'm creating a jenkins pipeline which has a string as a variable of 1 or more items

text="test1.var1.eu-20190414121923517200000001 test2.var2.ue1-20190414121925623400000002 test3.var3.ue1-20190414121926583500000003"

I basically want to go in a loop and for each item run an action. for example echo each one in turn. The echo would look at the string and return each item in a for loop where there are 1 or more results

expected result:

test1.var1.eu-20190414121923517200000001

test2.var2.ue1-20190414121925623400000002

test3.var3.ue1-20190414121926583500000003

I've tried a few things including adding a sh to run a for loop

#!/usr/local/bin/groovy pipeline { parameters { choice(choices: "1\n2\n3", description: 'The length of time for the environment to remain up', name: 'hours') } stages { stage('get and update hours') { steps { script { env.text="test1.var1.eu-20190414121923517200000001 test2.var2.ue1-20190414121925623400000002 test3.var3.ue1-20190414121926583500000003" sh "echo ${text}" sh "for value in ${text}; do echo $value; done" } } } } } 

expected result

test1.var1.eu-20190414121923517200000001

test2.var2.ue1-20190414121925623400000002

test3.var3.ue1-20190414121926583500000003

actual result:

[Pipeline] End of Pipeline [Office365connector] No webhooks to notify groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: value for class: > groovy.lang.Binding at groovy.lang.Binding.getVariable(Binding.java:63) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.scriptsecurity.sandbox.groovy.SandboxInterceptor.onGetProperty(SandboxInterceptor.java:264) at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.impl.Checker$6.call(Checker.java:288) at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.impl.Checker.checkedGetProperty(Checker.java:292) at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.impl.Checker.checkedGetProperty(Checker.java:268)

1 Answer

At which point you want to split this into particular texts? In general this part is missing .split(' ').

def texts = text.split(' ') for (txt in texts) { sh "echo ${txt}" } 

If you really want to do that in your shell directly add escaped quotes and use a variable

sh "test=\"${text}\";for value in $test; do echo $value; done"