# range operator is appending a text

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/range-operator-is-appending-a-text/28546>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [September 11, 2018, 6:39am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/range-operator-is-appending-a-text/28546 "2018-09-11T06:39:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Abhijit\_Chakraborty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5fc32e/32.png) [@Abhijit\_Chakraborty](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Abhijit_Chakraborty)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 6:39am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/range-operator-is-appending-a-text/28546/1 "2018-09-11T06:39:58Z")

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I am trying to uninstall a application using ansible. This is my playbook

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**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 7:33am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/range-operator-is-appending-a-text/28546/2 "2018-09-11T07:33:34Z")

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stdout\_lines is plural so it means that you can have many lines and each line is an element in a list. So [:40] means only use the 40 first element/lines.

Why don't you use the yum module with state: absent?