# How to capture/filter stdout\_lines

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-capture-filter-stdout-lines/30087>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ansible-project\
**Created:** [April 10, 2019, 5:46am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-capture-filter-stdout-lines/30087 "2019-04-10T05:46:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sebastian\_Meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@Sebastian\_Meyer](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sebastian_Meyer)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 5:46am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-capture-filter-stdout-lines/30087/1 "2019-04-10T05:46:56Z")

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> Stdout\_lines that I get contains strings , json in different lines.
> 
> I want to capture the last line and copy those contents to a a new Json file.
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> How do I capture the last line from the registered variable.
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> I tried this and it didn't work.
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> "{{ Regvar.stdout\_lines | last }}"

Try

{{ regvar.stdout\_lines[-1] }}