# Printing register variable

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/printing-register-variable/12848>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ansible-project\
**Created:** [May 22, 2013, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/printing-register-variable/12848 "2013-05-22T18:42:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![benno\_joy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@benno\_joy](https://forum.ansible.com/u/benno_joy)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/printing-register-variable/12848/1 "2013-05-22T18:42:44Z")

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try putting -vvv to ansible-playbook command line

- Benno Joy

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca1)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/printing-register-variable/12848/2 "2013-05-22T19:02:30Z")

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Just one will suffice (-v), I’ll probably add a print by default option to the debug module.

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**Author:** ![abhirama.bhat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@abhirama.bhat](https://forum.ansible.com/u/abhirama.bhat)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 6:08am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/printing-register-variable/12848/3 "2013-05-26T06:08:46Z")

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Thanks, that worked. Is there a way to dump the variable foo to inspect all of it’s contents something like php’s var\_dump or python’s pprint?

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/printing-register-variable/12848/4 "2013-05-26T16:04:01Z")

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# Assuming 1.2 is available

tasks:

- debug: msg=“{{ foo }}”

# else:

tasks:

- debug: msg=${foo}

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**Author:** ![Scott\_Sturdivant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Scott\_Sturdivant](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Scott_Sturdivant)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/printing-register-variable/12848/5 "2013-05-26T17:42:37Z")

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Wwww

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca1)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/printing-register-variable/12848/6 "2013-05-28T20:16:29Z")

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in 1.2 {{foo|pprint}} also to\_nice\_yaml and to\_nice\_json are available