# Ability to do nested loops now in 1.1

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ability-to-do-nested-loops-now-in-1-1/12483>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [March 11, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ability-to-do-nested-loops-now-in-1-1/12483 "2013-03-11T21:54:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ability-to-do-nested-loops-now-in-1-1/12483/1 "2013-03-11T21:54:58Z")

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Here's an example of a new nested loop feature I just coded up.

[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/playbooks/loop\_nested.yml](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/playbooks/loop_nested.yml)

Notice how the "$item" returned is actually a multiple item list.

Three items of three gives you 27 different tuples, the results of  
talking over each list in turn.

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca1)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ability-to-do-nested-loops-now-in-1-1/12483/2 "2013-03-12T00:17:55Z")

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oooooh, I already have 10 ways to abuse this ...!!!!

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Maas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7c8e57/32.png) [@Mark\_Maas](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mark_Maas)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 5:19am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ability-to-do-nested-loops-now-in-1-1/12483/3 "2013-07-10T05:19:53Z")

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Hi Michael,

Do you perhaps have a new link? Github changed it me thinks?

Thanks,  
Mark

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**Author:** ![GW1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@GW1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/GW1)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 9:05am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ability-to-do-nested-loops-now-in-1-1/12483/4 "2013-07-10T09:05:20Z")

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Hi,

If you would look at the README in this folder, you would find out that all examples moved to [https://github.com/ansible/ansible-examples/blob/master/language\_features/loop\_nested.yml](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-examples/blob/master/language_features/loop_nested.yml)

Greetings,  
gw

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca1)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ability-to-do-nested-loops-now-in-1-1/12483/5 "2013-07-10T14:51:08Z")

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it is almost the same way i implemented hashes in bash …