I knew it would be simple if I just asked!  That worked perfectly!
    Thanks!
    -Mark


On Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 3:39:38 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
>
>
>  This is something I have been struggling with for a while: a variable 
> whose name includes a variable.  For instance, Ansible facts for a server 
> includes the following information on the network interfaces:
>
>             "ansible_eth0": {
>                 "active": true,
>                 "device": "eth0",
>                 "ipv4": {
>                     "address": "10.105.12.24",
>                     "netmask": "255.255.252.0",
>                     "network": "10.105.12.0"
>                 },
>                 "macaddress": "00:50:56:92:3c:b2",
>                 "module": "vmxnet3",
>                 "mtu": 1500,
>                 "promisc": false,
>                 "type": "ether"
>             },
>             "ansible_eth1": {
>                 "active": true,
>                 "device": "eth1",
>                 "ipv4": {
>                     "address": "10.104.24.25",
>                     "netmask": "255.255.255.248",
>                     "network": "10.104.24.24"
>                 },
>                 "macaddress": "00:50:56:92:6a:40",
>                 "module": "vmxnet3",
>                 "mtu": 1500,
>                 "promisc": false,
>                 "type": "ether"
>             },
>             "ansible_interfaces": [
>                 "lo",
>                 "eth1",
>                 "eth0"
>             ],
>
> In a playbook, I want to walk through the list of interfaces and extract 
> information about each one:
>
>       - debug: msg="interface = {{item}}, address = 
> {{ansible_{{item}}.ipv4.address}}
>       with_items: ansible_interfaces
>       when: 'item != "lo"'
>
> This, of course, does not work because of the nested delimiters.  So how 
> do I call out something like this?
> -Mark
>
>

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