trouble iterating through stdout_lines

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Hi, I am trying to work out how to iterate through some results from a command I am running on a network device. the idea is when I find the line that matches what I am looking for based on a regexp I want to store it.

`

tasks:

  • name: get the existing access-list
    ios_command:
    provider: “{{ cli }}”
    commands:

  • show access-list mgtaccess
    register: result

  • debug: var=result.stdout_lines

  • name: Do something with each result
    debug:
    msg: “{{ item }}”
    with_items:

  • “{{ result.stdout_lines }}”

`



This is the output from the task

`

ok: [172.16.1.135] => (item=[u’Standard IP access list mgtaccess’, u’ 20 permit 10.1.1.1’, u’ 10 permit 192.168.0.1’, u’ 30 permit any (2566 matches)']) => {
“changed”: false,
“failed”: false,
“item”: [
“Standard IP access list mgtaccess”,
" 20 permit 10.1.1.1",
" 10 permit 192.168.0.1",
" 30 permit any (2566 matches)"
],

“msg”: [
“Standard IP access list mgtaccess”,
" 20 permit 10.1.1.1",
" 10 permit 192.168.0.1",
" 30 permit any (2566 matches)"

]
}
`


I'm confused shouldn't I be seeing multiple individual 'msg's??

Many thanks.
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result.stdout_lines is a list that contains lists
So you have result.stdout_lines.0.0 the first line, result.stdout_lines.0.1 the second one and so on.

You can do
  with_items: '{{ result.stdout_lines.0 }}'
to get what you are after.