CLI Local Variables V3

RouterOS Scripting
1

Declaring local variables from CLI is broken.
I have tested this with V3.0 up to 3.4 with the same results.

/system script
add name="Variables" policy=ftp,reboot,read,write,policy,test,winbox,password,sniff 
source="
:global global YES
:local local YES
:put "global is: $global" 
:put "local is: $local"

When I do it from a script it works.
[admin@Louis] > /system script run Variables
global is: YES
local is: YES

When I do it from CLI I get an error.
[admin@Louis] > :global global YES
[admin@Louis] > :local local YES
[admin@Louis] > :put “global is: $global”
global is: YES
[admin@Louis] > :put “local is: $local”
expected end of command (line 1 column 17)
[admin@Louis] > :env print
“global”=“YES”

-Louis

2

it should be so, because each line is separate script, and local variable is available only in current script.

Type:
{
:local local YES;
:put “local is: $local”
}

and you will get what you want

3

Thank you mrz for clearing that up.
Looks like there are a couple of things to still figure out from the transition from 2.9.

-Louis