Hi,
I have this playbook to print the columns 5 and 6 using the debug.
Do split accepts only one square bracket parameter?
the python aquivalent (something similar to this should be happening in the backgound) would be:
myline = ‘This line is a test, two, three, four, five, 6, seven’
print(myline.split(‘,’)[4], myline.split(‘,’)[5], myline.split(‘,’)[6])
five 6 seven
as you do not have an index 11 your concrete example makes no big sense in that regards.
I neither found the correct ansible syntax to translate that mentioned python logic into a TASK example like yours though.
maybe someone else here can help out with that
You have 6 delimiters, so only 7 fields. Your maximum index therefore is 6.
Setting that issue aside, you can use map(), like so:
"{{ [2, 4, 5] | map('extract', myline.split(',')) }}"
Cheers,
Thanks Todd.
I got the desired output and it answers the other thread also .
https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-project/c/ZqZuw3do-5g/m/hMlDvLceAQAJ (Now I understand it is a string… )
Hi Todd,
Is there a way to combine the 2 positional values .
“{{ [2, 4, 5] | map(‘extract’, myline.split(‘,’)) }}”
as
“{{ [2, 4 5] | map(‘extract’, myline.split(‘,’)) }}”
to print like below
- two
- four five
I tried to combine … but missing a bit
“{{ [2, combine [4 5] | map(‘extract’, myline.split(‘,’)) }}” or printing “two” as a item and “{{ [4 5] | map(‘extract’, myline.split(‘,’)) |combine }}”
or a different filter instead of combine can help?
Split the string and trim the items
arr: "{{ myline|split(',')|map('trim') }}"
gives
arr:
- This line is a test
- two
- three
- four
- five
- '6'
- seven
A list of lists the structure that describes what you want
s1_34: "{{ [[1], [3, 4]]|
map('map', 'extract', arr)|
map('join', ' ') }}"
gives
s1_34:
- two
- four five
You can substitute *arr* in *s1_34* if you want a 'one-liner'.
Hi Vladimir ,
I got it by using the join - s1_34: "{{ [[1], [3, 4]]| map(‘map’, ‘extract’, arr)| join(‘,’)}