Walter, that worked, and thanks so much! I both appreciate the regex
solution, and it simplification. I also probably be able to reuse this,
with some modifications, depending on what I'm trying to accomplish. Double
win. Thanks again!
On Wednesday, January 10, 2024 at 10:14:32 AM UTC-5 Rowe, Walter P. (Fed)
wrote:
> This works.
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> regex_replace(\"([\\[\\]'])\",'')
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> Escaping the double quotes that define the search regex gets around
> needing to escape the single quote. Also note that I collapsed your search
> into a single character set.
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> - name: test
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> hosts: localhost
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> become: false
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> gather_facts: false
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> vars:
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> mystr: "['/First Datacenter/vm/Prod-SRM']"
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> tasks:
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> - debug: msg="{{ mystr | regex_replace(\"([\\[\\]'])\",'') }}"
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> *% ansible-playbook -i localhost, foo.yml*
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> PLAY [test]
> ************************************************************************************************************
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> TASK [debug]
> ***********************************************************************************************************
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> ok: [localhost] => {
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> "msg": "/First Datacenter/vm/Prod-SRM"
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> }
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> PLAY RECAP
> *************************************************************************************************************
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> localhost : ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0
> failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
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> The solution was found on this stack overflow page.
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> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52495838/ansible-remove-the-single-quote-character-from-a-string
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> Walter
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> On Jan 10, 2024, at 9:27 AM, Rowe, Walter P. (Fed) <walte...@nist.gov>
> wrote:
>
> Have you tried:
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> *regex_replace('(\\[)|(\\])**|(\\')**', '')*
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> Walter
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> On Jan 10, 2024, at 9:08 AM, Dimitri Yioulos <dyio...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello, all.
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> I'm working with VMware modules in removing snapshots across all vCenter
> folders. In order for this to work, I first have to get the folders in
> which the virtual machines live. Here's the playbook:
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> VMware password" private: yes vars: vcenter_hostname:
> vcenter1.mycompany.com <http://vcenter1.mycompany.com>
> vcenter_datacenter: First Datacenter tasks: - name: Find virtual
> machine's folder name vmware_guest_find: hostname: "{{
> vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
> password: "{{ vcenter_password }}" name: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
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> name: Remove all snapshots of a VM
> community.vmware.vmware_guest_snapshot: hostname: "{{
> vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
> password: "{{ vcenter_password }}" datacenter: "{{
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> regex_replace('(\\[)|(\\])', '') }}" name: "{{ inventory_hostname
> }}" state: remove_all validate_certs: False
> delegate_to: localhost*
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> Previous to my having employed regex_replace, this is the output I'd get,
> e.g., for a vm's folder:
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> *"['/First Datacenter/vm/Prod-SRM']"*
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> The problem with that is *['* and *']*. They can't be part pf the folder
> name. After employing regex-replace, the output is:
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> *" '/Bedford Datacenter/vm/Bedford-Prod-SRM' "*
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> Try as I may, I've not been able to find a way to also remove the single
> quotes (the double quotes can remain). I've tried appending to the
> regex_replace, but every piece of code i've used has failed.
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> *regex_replace('(\\[)|(\\])'|(addlcodehere), '') }}*
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> Your kinf assistance requested.
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