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Workflow to test Truthy and Falsy expressions in GitHub Actions conditionals
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| test-github-actions-expressions-in-conditionals: | |
| runs-on: ubuntu-latest | |
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| # Note that in conditionals, falsy values (false, 0, -0, "", '', null) are coerced to false and truthy (true and other non-falsy values) are coerced to true. | |
| # See https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflows-and-actions/expressions#literals | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && 0 == false\"" | |
| if: always() && 0 == false | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && -0 == false\"" | |
| if: always() && -0 == false | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && '' == false\"" | |
| if: always() && '' == false | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && null == false\"" | |
| if: always() && null == false | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && true == true\"" | |
| if: always() && true == true | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && 1 == true\"" | |
| if: always() && 1 == true | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && -1 == true\"" | |
| if: always() && -1 == true | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && 2 == true\"" | |
| if: always() && 2 == true | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && ' ' == true\"" | |
| if: always() && ' ' == true | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && 'string' == true\"" | |
| if: always() && 'string' == true | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && fromJSON('[]') == true\"" | |
| if: always() && fromJSON('[]') == true | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && fromJSON('{}') == true\"" | |
| if: always() && fromJSON('{}') == true | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && fromJSON('[]') == false\"" | |
| if: always() && fromJSON('[]') == false | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && fromJSON('{}') == false\"" | |
| if: always() && fromJSON('{}') == false | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && inputs.not_provided == false\"" | |
| if: always() && inputs.not_provided == false | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && inputs.not_provided == null\"" | |
| if: always() && inputs.not_provided == null | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && 0\"" | |
| if: always() && 0 | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && -0\"" | |
| if: always() && -0 | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && ''\"" | |
| if: always() && '' | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && null\"" | |
| if: always() && null | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && true\"" | |
| if: always() && true | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && 1\"" | |
| if: always() && 1 | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && -1\"" | |
| if: always() && -1 | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && 2\"" | |
| if: always() && 2 | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && ' '\"" | |
| if: always() && ' ' | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && 'string'\"" | |
| if: always() && 'string' | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && fromJSON('false')\"" | |
| if: always() && fromJSON('false') | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && fromJSON('0')\"" | |
| if: always() && fromJSON('0') | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && fromJSON('-0')\"" | |
| if: always() && fromJSON('-0') | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && fromJSON('1')\"" | |
| if: always() && fromJSON('1') | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && fromJSON('-1')\"" | |
| if: always() && fromJSON('-1') | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && fromJSON('\"\"')\"" | |
| if: always() && fromJSON('""') | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && fromJSON('true')\"" | |
| if: always() && fromJSON('true') | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && fromJSON('[]')\"" | |
| if: always() && fromJSON('[]') | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && fromJSON('{}')\"" | |
| if: always() && fromJSON('{}') | |
| - run: "echo \"if: always() && false == false\"" | |
| if: always() && false == false |
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