string not recognised in groups_vars/all

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I have a the below in my groups vars, and in a role I am trying to add a conditional on module-a such as when: " ‘module-a’ in module" but keeps throwing me this error

{“msg”: "The conditional check ’ ‘module-a’ in modules’ failed. The error was: error while evaluating conditional ( ‘module-a’ in modules): Unable to look up a name or access an attribute in template string ({% if 'module-a in modules %} True {% else %} False {% endif %}).\nMake sure your variable name does not contain invalid characters like ‘-’: argument of type ‘AnsibleUndefined’ is not iterable…

but somehow it works when I put this in the playbook itself…

Did anyone had such an issue? Or… any idea why this works on the playbook but not under gorup_vars/all…??

vars:
module:

  • module-a
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Dot, dash are operators in python on which ansible is based…

It is not a good idea to use them, but if you use them, there is some notices about it here :

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/faq.html

And there are issue :

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/56930

So please, do not used them in variables… It should save you times

Regards,

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but that doesnt’t respond to my answer on why this works when it is in the playbook… and not when it is in groups-vars

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Check out the syntax of ‘all’ file. I feel the indentation is not right.