# whitespaces in include\_vars

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/whitespaces-in-include-vars/22764>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Created:** [October 10, 2016, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/whitespaces-in-include-vars/22764 "2016-10-10T20:08:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Harald\_Laabs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9de0a6/32.png) [@Harald\_Laabs](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Harald_Laabs)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/whitespaces-in-include-vars/22764/1 "2016-10-10T20:08:44Z")

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Hi all,

somewhere in the last week ansible 2.2 changed to fail on tabs in  
include\_vars files.  
foo: 123 -- works  
foo: 123 -- fails

Is that behaviour intentional? (I hope not. I thought I'm only a few  
days away from being able to move from 1.9 to 2.x after the worst  
performance problems got fixed...)  
Did anyone see other places where different whitespaces show different  
behaviour?

Thanks!

Harald