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match

Collection Note

This module is part of the ansible.builtin collection. To install the collection, use:

ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.builtin

Synopsis

  • Compare string against regular expression using Python's match function, this means the regex is automatically anchored at the start of the string.

Parameters

Parameter Defaults / Choices Comments
_input
string
required
String to match.
ignorecase
boolean
Use case insensitive matching.
multiline
boolean
Match against multiple lines in string.
pattern
string
required
Regex to match against.

Examples

url: "https://example.com/users/foo/resources/bar"
foundmatch: url is match("https://example.com/users/.*/resources")
nomatch: url is match("/users/.*/resources")

Return Values

Key Data Type Description Returned
_value boolean Returns V(True) if there is a match, V(False) otherwise.

Authors

  • Ansible Core