Practical Network Automation

Data types

As the name suggests, these are the classifications of the values that we pass on to the variable. A variable can be defined to store a specific type of value that can be declared based upon the data type.

There are multiple data types, but for our initial discussion there are primarily four data types that need to be understood:

• String: This is a catch-all data type. Any value defined as a string is as simple as saying the value is plain English with characters, alphabets, special characters, and so on. I have referred to it as a catch-all data type because nearly all other data types can be converted to string format keeping the same values intact during conversion to string.

Consider the following example:

number=2

This defines ...