On Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 12:11:00 PM UTC-6, Kai Stian Olstad wrote:
>
> On 21.03.2019 18:10, John Harmon wrote:
> > I have tried single quotes too around the regexp, but get a similar
> issue
> >
> > TASK [dns_update : include_tasks]
> >
> ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
>
>
> > fatal: [ansible-ub18]: FAILED! => {"reason": "Syntax Error while loading
> > YAML.\n found unknown escape character\n\nThe error appears to have
> been
> > in '/etc/ansible/role/dns_update/tasks/Ubuntu18.yml': line 7, column 15,
> > but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax
> > problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n regexp:
> > '.*nameservers.*$\\n.*addresses:(.*$)'\n replace: \"\\1 {{ dns1 }},
> {{
> > dns 2}}\"\n ^ here\nWe could be wrong, but this one looks
> like
> > it might be an issue with\nmissing quotes. Always quote template
> > expression brackets when they\nstart a value. For instance:\n\n
> > with_items:\n - {{ foo }}\n\nShould be written as:\n\n
> > with_items:\n - \"{{ foo }}\"\n"}
> >
>
> If you add this sed to correct the formatting somewhat
> ansible-playbook playbbok.yml | sed 's/\\n/\n/g'
>
> you'll see that is pointing to your double quote in the replace line.
>
>
> --
> Kai Stian Olstad
>
Thx all. Those helped. I now get it to replace, but it replaces my string
and not just my backref. Not sure what I am doing wrong. I think that is
just the default behavior of replace. Can't use quantifiers with negative
look aheads/behinds.
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