Try:
{{people[myperson].name}}
On Thursday, January 22, 2015, Chip Selden <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm trying to use a variable to determine which node in a dictionary to
> get information from. I will later want to use this for iterating over
> lists of variables so that I can use specific nodes in a dict without
> looping over all of them.
>
> I have the following vars:
> myperson: bob
> people:
> alice:
> name: alice
> age: 30
> bob:
> name: bob
> age: 30
>
> I using the following task to test the result:
> - name: Debug out myperson's name
> debug: msg="name = {{people.{{myperson}}.name}}"
>
> This returns the following error:
> template error while templating string: expected name or number
>
> Note the only way that I have gotten this to evaluate correctly is if I
> use the following task where I only need one set of braces:
> - name: Debug out myperson's name
> debug: var=people.{{myperson}}.name
>
> However, I cannot use this syntax in other cases (such as the shell or
> lineinfile modules). Is there some syntax for nesting variables in this way
> that I'm not aware of?
>
> Thanks,
> Chip
>
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