Concatenation of vars ?

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Hi,

i am new to ansible and just rewrote some puppet-recipe with ansible
now...
I am looking for a way to reassign and also concatenate variables ?

  user: myuser

  vars:
    base: /opt/productsuite

  vars_files:
    - vars/product.yml # this brings a piece of a directory-path
also: product: sqldb

  tasks:
    - action file path=$base/$user/$product/bin state=directory owner=
$user group=$group

So the directory string is long and i would like to replace it with a
new variable to make the playbook even shorter.
  $thepath = "$base/$user/$product"
   action file path=$thepath/bin state=directory owner=$user group=
$group

What i also cannot do is to invoke vars block a second time for
assignment of variables again which would help:
  vars:
  vars_files:
  vars:

Some ideas ?

(ansible-0.3.1-1.el6, Centos 6.2)

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Hi,

i am new to ansible and just rewrote some puppet-recipe with ansible
now…
I am looking for a way to reassign and also concatenate variables ?

There’s no way to add variables together and store them in other variables presently.

What i also cannot do is to invoke vars block a second time for
assignment of variables again which would help:
vars:
vars_files:
vars:

This isn’t possible because a playbook is a YAML document and each play is a dictionary/hash data structure.

Each element can only occur once and are actually unordered, though there is some business logic that does handle order.