Test string against expression?

Hi All,

Please forgive my ignorance for I am a novice in the area of
templating engines and cheetah.  That said, I want to compare a string
in a placeholder against a regular expression (btw, this is in
Cobbler...not sure if it makes a real difference or not).  The concept
is as follows:

#if $getVar('name') == '*string*'
   #set foo = "bar"
#else
   #set bar = "foo"
#end if

What is the best approach to accomplishing this?

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