select one and two caracter of variable

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Hi all,

I don’t now why this task not works:

  • set_fact:
    my_variable: “{{ ansible_user[0 and 1] + ‘gis’ if ansible_user!=‘wildfly’ else ‘wildfly’ }}”

But ansible_user[0] + ansible_user[1] works but i want one syntaxe shorter, exemple ansible_user[0 and 1] but this syntax not works !!

Someone have an idea please guy !!

Thank you very much

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upp please !!

Someone have an idea please guy !!!

If my var = “jesuisla”

How get only “jesuis”

Thanks

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Why would you expect it to work? 'and' is a logical operator. Jinja2 (which is used for templating a in Ansible) uses python slicing and substrings.

Take a look here:

https://www.journaldev.com/23774/python-string-substring

The syntax you're looking for is slicing: variable[start:end]

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Thank you very much Hugo Gonzalez,

You are strong, it’s not easy find the solution same the more evident haha :wink:

Regards,