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+Puppet::Parser::Functions::newfunction(
+  :match,
+  :arity => 2,
+  :doc => <<-DOC
+Returns the match result of matching a String or Array[String] with one of:
+
+* Regexp
+* String - transformed to a Regexp
+* Pattern type
+* Regexp type
+
+Returns An Array with the entire match at index 0, and each subsequent submatch at index 1-n.
+If there was no match `undef` is returned. If the value to match is an Array, a array
+with mapped match results is returned.
+
+Example matching:
+
+  "abc123".match(/([a-z]+)[1-9]+/)    # => ["abc"]
+  "abc123".match(/([a-z]+)([1-9]+)/)  # => ["abc", "123"]
+
+See the documentation for "The Puppet Type System" for more information about types.
+
+- since 3.7.0
+- note requires future parser
+DOC
+) do |args|
+  function_fail(["match() is only available when parser/evaluator future is in effect"])
+end