uncommenting a line in file is not working

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Hello Experts,

my ansible play book is working for me to uncomment certain lines in a .conf file, but its failing for one particular line its not making any change.

below is my .conf file part.

→
#<VirtualHost *:443>
#SSLEnable
#Header always set Strict-Transport-Security “max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload”
#

→

Expected output

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You have a * in you data, * is a regexp special character, when you are using a special character as a literal character you need to escape it.
So this should work:
  regexp: '^#(.*<VirtualHost \*:443>.*)'

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Hello Kai,

Great Advise!!! Thanks a lot for your help. It worked like a magic…