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+module Puppet::Parser::Functions
+
+ newfunction(:loadyaml, :type => :rvalue, :doc => <<-'ENDHEREDOC') do |args|
+ Load a YAML file containing an array, string, or hash, and return the data
+ in the corresponding native data type.
+
+ For example:
+
+ $myhash = loadyaml('/etc/puppet/data/myhash.yaml')
+ ENDHEREDOC
+
+ unless args.length == 1
+ raise Puppet::ParseError, ("loadyaml(): wrong number of arguments (#{args.length}; must be 1)")
+ end
+
+ YAML.load_file(args[0])
+
+ end
+
+end