# Unable to print regex registered variable in Ansible

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-print-regex-registered-variable-in-ansible/31983>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ansible-project\
**Created:** [January 15, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-print-regex-registered-variable-in-ansible/31983 "2020-01-15T14:51:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-print-regex-registered-variable-in-ansible/31983/1 "2020-01-15T14:51:00Z")

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Just use grep

- command: grep -P "^\s\*SSLFILE" /tmp/httpd.conf  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;register: results

- debug: msg="{{ results.stdout }}"

- debug: msg="{{ item }}"  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;with\_items: "{{ results.stdout\_lines }}"