Need an assist for an ansible playbook where is am receiving error while comparing ansible value with the customer provided value.

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Hi All,

I need to work on ansible role, where after the ansible module is executed I need to compare that value with the value provided by the customer.
I am able to fetch the value through ansible role however I am facing issues while comparing this value with the value provided by the customer.
Any assistance or guidance would be of great help, Thanks.

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This is correct, as the values are different. So the assert task should fail.

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Thanks for your reply. I modified the command ( timedatectl | grep -i “Time zone:” | sed ‘s/^ *.T/T/g’ ) to trim the space I was receiving in stdout and it resolved the issue.

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Your last task shall not match due to whitespaces from the registered var. Try rewriting your assertion like this.

  • name: “Assert Similarity”

vars:

customer_val: “{{ lookup(‘file’, ‘customer-expects.txt’) | from_yaml }}”

assert:

that: “{{ customer_val == _cat.stdout | trim }}”

fail_msg: Missed

success_msg: Matched

PS: Update the formatting as required, am not using a console/system.