do-until loop with find function and regulare expression

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Freinds:

Thank you for your time and attention on this, in advance.

I have the following do-until loop and I am trying to understand how to match regurlar experssions.

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shell: “curl -sk -m 2 http://localhost:8080/Log4JControl/version.jsp”
register: result
until: result.stdout.find(“3.6.2.85”) != -1
retries: 60
delay: 10

The find function takes a string that varies from each server to server.

The 3.6.2.85 is not a constant. I want to be able to match 3.*. I get an empty string for almost 4 mintutes but then I will get 3.x…x

Is that function find coming from Python ?

Where can I find more documentation on that find command to see if it can match regex ?

Regards,
-Narahari

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Is that function find coming from Python ?

yes

Where can I find more documentation on that find command to see if it can
match regex ?

Python docs. But it doesn't support regexp, only string.

What you are looking for is regexp filters
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_filters.html#regular-expression-filters

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It worked. Thank You.