# Spaces in group names?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/spaces-in-group-names/28518>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** vmware\
**Created:** [September 6, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/spaces-in-group-names/28518 "2018-09-06T17:19:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Carter\_Stephen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Carter\_Stephen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Carter_Stephen)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/spaces-in-group-names/28518/1 "2018-09-06T17:19:27Z")

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I was messing around with VMware inventory, and grouping off of the VM Folder however, ours have spaces in the names for some of them. When I target them ansible is treating them as two items, rather than a single. Is that intended behavior, or a workaround?