# Single quotes inside Jinja2 string literals

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/single-quotes-inside-jinja2-string-literals/20358>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [January 27, 2016, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/single-quotes-inside-jinja2-string-literals/20358 "2016-01-27T09:52:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Christian\_Thiemann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Christian\_Thiemann](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Christian_Thiemann)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/single-quotes-inside-jinja2-string-literals/20358/1 "2016-01-27T09:52:49Z")

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How can I include single quotes in single-quoted Jinja2 string literals in Ansible 2.0?

Minimal test case:

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**Author:** ![Deepali\_Mittal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Deepali\_Mittal](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Deepali_Mittal)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 4:42am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/single-quotes-inside-jinja2-string-literals/20358/2 "2016-06-28T04:42:42Z")

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I am getting the same error using ansible 2.1 stable branch. Did you find a work around for this?

`

- name: Set ELB variables  
set\_fact:  
host: “{{ elb\_ins.elb.dns\_name }}”  
url: ‘http//{{ elb\_ins.elb.dns\_name }}/Server/’  
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**Author:** ![Christian\_Thiemann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Christian\_Thiemann](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Christian_Thiemann)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 10:12am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/single-quotes-inside-jinja2-string-literals/20358/3 "2016-06-30T10:12:27Z")

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Hi Deepali,

Sadly, I haven’t found a work-around and am still using Ansible 1.9 since this bug is a big blocker for me…

If you want, you could post a comment on the GitHub issue I’ve created for this some time ago, to let the Ansible team know this affects not just me: [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/14172](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/14172)

Cheers,  
Christian