I just found a nice way of supplying re.sub compile flags to regex_replace.
https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html, at '(?iLmsux)' So for instance, this would not work: regex_replace('.*([a-z0-9]{40}).*', '\\1') I just found out that I would need the re.S flag (make '.' match any char). You can supply that as part of the regex: regex_replace('(?s).*([a-z0-9]{40}).*', '\\1') I would preferred this over hard coded flag options in Ansible. Dick On 5 January 2017 at 12:12, Dick Visser <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > One of my plays tries to do a regex_replace on the returned content of > the uri module, which is HTML with new lines in it. > This seems to fail as from the debug output I can see that > regex_replace doesn't do multiline matching. > > I see that there is basically only one flag for re.sub in regex_replace: > > https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/core.py#L137-L140 > > For my regex to work, I would need both the re.MULTILINE and re.DOTALL > flags to be set for re.sub. > > Instead of hard coding one or two flags as arguments, wouldn't it make > sense to have the filter accept an argument of the raw flags? > > This would make things much more flexible (and powerful!). > > > > -- > Dick Visser > Sr. System & Network Engineer > GÉANT > > Want to join us? We're hiring: https://www.geant.org/jobs -- Dick Visser Sr. System & Network Engineer GÉANT Want to join us? We're hiring: http://www.geant.org/jobs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAEQQDN%3Dq9e2F%3DyBpVKAiUbd_5Tm0EoFeg%2BYBPfV%3D2%2BtrWLPy3Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
