# Var file limitation

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/var-file-limitation/19386>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [September 30, 2015, 10:57am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/var-file-limitation/19386 "2015-09-30T10:57:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Jugal\_Porwal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b2d939/32.png) [@Jugal\_Porwal](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jugal_Porwal)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 10:57am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/var-file-limitation/19386/1 "2015-09-30T10:57:33Z")

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Hi,

I’m trying to create an external var file(for eg. temp.yml). It contains the variables and their values in the following way :

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**Author:** ![Jugal\_Porwal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b2d939/32.png) [@Jugal\_Porwal](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jugal_Porwal)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 11:21am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/var-file-limitation/19386/2 "2015-09-30T11:21:15Z")

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I fixed it. Such a misdirected error message !! There was a space missing between one of the key value pairs. And my file had around 100 lines ;(