# Array in Ansible

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/array-in-ansible/26238>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [December 9, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/array-in-ansible/26238 "2017-12-09T17:43:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Saurabh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Saurabh](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Saurabh)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/array-in-ansible/26238/1 "2017-12-09T17:43:04Z")

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How to read variables in ansible?

Below Example :

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Smith1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Larry\_Smith1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Larry_Smith1)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/array-in-ansible/26238/2 "2017-12-10T03:58:46Z")

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Based on your example if you change the playbook similarily to below:

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Smith1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Larry\_Smith1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Larry_Smith1)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2017, 4:04am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/array-in-ansible/26238/3 "2017-12-10T04:04:08Z")

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Another way you could be as below:

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**Author:** ![Saurabh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Saurabh](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Saurabh)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2017, 6:48am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/array-in-ansible/26238/4 "2017-12-10T06:48:12Z")

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Hi Lary,

Thank you so much!

If we want to read vars from some file in the same scenario ?

Then how we will do?

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**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2017, 9:25am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/array-in-ansible/26238/5 "2017-12-10T09:25:45Z")

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[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/include\_vars\_module.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/include_vars_module.html)