From 47d7354cc5521853fbe8df96b7bb0223bea732cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kyle Kotowick <kyle@kotowick.ca>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 12:49:09 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Use a fake function to throw the error

---
 README.md | 6 +++++-
 main.tf   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3864de3..4649d15 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -24,5 +24,9 @@ No changes. Your infrastructure matches the configuration.
 
 Output on Windows machines:
 ```
-Invalid value for "number" parameter: cannot parse "ERROR: This Terraform configuration can only be run on Unix-based machines." as a base 2 integer.
+// This is where you see the real error message
+var.error_message is "This Terraform configuration can only be run on Unix-based machines."
+
+// Ignore this part
+There is no function named "SEE_ABOVE_ERROR_MESSAGE".
 ```
diff --git a/main.tf b/main.tf
index 3d8931a..0ab7d4c 100644
--- a/main.tf
+++ b/main.tf
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@ terraform {
 }
 
 locals {
-  content = var.condition ? "" : abs(true ? null : "ERROR: ${var.error_message}")
+  content = var.condition ? "" : SEE_ABOVE_ERROR_MESSAGE(true ? null : "ERROR: ${var.error_message}")
 }