Matt,
Thanks, that's a good thought, but it returned the same error.
On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 1:37:19 PM UTC-5, Matt Martz wrote:
>
> Try:
>
> {{people[myperson].name}}
>
> On Thursday, January 22, 2015, Chip Selden <[email protected]
> <javascript:>> 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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