Although I have checked previous similar questions, none seems to apply/work for me. We're on Ansible version 2.9 as long as the rest of our infra will not be updated. I have this list underneath which I need to filter on two strings.
kvm_list:
- abcdefabcfgh.domain.example
- deffghabc.domain.example
- abcblabla.domain.example
- kabcxyz.domain.example
- kesanu.domain.example
- kesbapo.domain.example
- kextoet.domain.example
- kptfkom.domain.example
- kgitblabla.domain.example
- kgitblubblub.domain.example
- name: "get them devtools"
hosts: localhost
ignore_errors: True
tasks:
- set_fact:
devtools: "{{ kvm_list | string | regex_search('kgit.*|kes.*', multiline=True)}}"
- debug: var=devtools
When trying the above I get the underneath:
TASK [debug] **************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"msg":"kesanu.domain.example','kesbapo.domain.example','kextoet.domain.example','kptfkom.domain.example','kgitblabla.domain.example','kgitblubblub.domain.example]"
}
Kextoet and kptfkom should not be included.
When testing this purely on regex ( https://regex101.com/ ) it works, when testing this in ansible it does not.
When using regex_findall, I get the same result.
When doing a regex search on one string it is correct.
If anybody could throw some hints or point to the obvious, I would be most grateful.
The select filter can achieve that:
- set_fact:
devtools: "{{ kvm_list | select('match','k(?:git|es)') }}"
ok: [localhost] => {
"devtools": [
"kesanu.domain.example",
"kesbapo.domain.example",
"kgitblabla.domain.example",
"kgitblubblub.domain.example"
]
}