*$ cat symianarmy01.yml*
---
# symianarmy01.yml
- name: Reading number from a file
hosts: localhost
gather_facts: false
vars:
*fname: /tmp/impact.txt content: ' -12268.06'*
tasks:
- name: Create our temporary file
ansible.builtin.copy:
content: '{{ content }}'
But the \1 is also inside single and double quotes, so if that were the reason, I wouldn’t have to double backslash the 1On Jan 9, 2024, at 9:19 AM, 'Rowe, Walter P. (Fed)' via Ansible Project wrote:
Perhaps because you have single quotes inside double quotes so everything inside the single q
Perhaps because you have single quotes inside double quotes so everything
inside the single quotes is automatically escaped?
Walter
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On Jan 9, 2024, at 9:04 AM, Rob Wagner wrote:
Right, but why doesn’t the \\d
Right, but why doesn’t the \\d need to be double-backslashed? Backslash-d is regex for matching on a digit. I just don’t get why doubling the backslash is needed on the 1 but not on the d.On Jan 9, 2024, at 7:53 AM, 'Rowe, Walter P. (Fed)' via Ansible Project wrote:
The \\1 must be double-b
regex_replace('^p(\d+).*$', '\\1')
'\\1' in the second argument is a "backref" (backwards reference) to the (\d+)
in the first argument. It seems it is looking for an expression with digits and
extracting the digits.
Your list 't' has names with p1_xyz, p2_xyz, p4_xyx so this regex would extrac
The \\1 must be double-backslashed because the backref needs to be
backslash-digit (\1). Doubling the backslash escapes the backslash.
Walter
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Walter Rowe, Division Chief
Infrastructure Services Division
Mobile: 202.355.4123
On Jan 8, 2024, at 6:57 PM, Rob Wagner wrote:
Thanks Matt, but I st
