# Error while using variables

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-while-using-variables/16704>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [November 5, 2014, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-while-using-variables/16704 "2014-11-05T21:06:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Erick\_Vitor\_de\_Barro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Erick\_Vitor\_de\_Barro](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Erick_Vitor_de_Barro)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-while-using-variables/16704/1 "2014-11-05T21:06:33Z")

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Hi !

Sorry for this newbie question…but…what is wrong with this?

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**Author:** ![sivel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/sivel/32/1198_2.png) [@sivel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sivel)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-while-using-variables/16704/2 "2014-11-05T21:11:01Z")

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You didn’t actually tell us what error you are getting, however I will assume it is that you need to wrap your {{ }} tempting code in quotes.

So instead of:

exact\_count: {{ item.count }}

You need:

exact\_count: “{{ item.count }}”

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**Author:** ![Erick\_Vitor\_de\_Barro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Erick\_Vitor\_de\_Barro](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Erick_Vitor_de_Barro)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 1:59am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-while-using-variables/16704/3 "2014-11-06T01:59:42Z")

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Hey Matt,

you’re perfectly right on both affirmations:

1. I’ve not informed the error
2. The proposed solution worked fine

Thanks so much