Wow.  Never would have thought to try that.  Escaping in YAML/Jinja is such 
an unintuitive mess.  Thanks so much, Andrew.

On Friday, November 18, 2022 at 4:59:47 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:

>
>
> ok, here it is..... should be \\1 vs \1 in your replacement and test(is) 
> on string contents(in)
>
>
>   - name: task 3
>     debug:
>       msg: "{{ item }} is in the s"
>     loop: "{{ t_list }}"
>     when: ( item | regex_replace("^p(\d+).*$", "\\1") ) is in s
>
>   - name: task 3.orig
>
>     debug:
>       msg: "{{ item }} is in s"
>     loop: "{{ t_list }}"
>     when: ( item | regex_replace("^p(\d+).*$", "\1") ) in s
>
>
>
> TASK [task 3] 
> ****************************************************************************************************
>  
>
> ok: [localhost] => (item=p1_xyz) => { 
>    "msg": "p1_xyz is in the s" 
> } 
> ok: [localhost] => (item=p2_xyz) => { 
>    "msg": "p2_xyz is in the s" 
> } 
>
> TASK [task 3.orig] 
> ***********************************************************************************************
>  
>
> skipping: [localhost] => (item=p1_xyz)  
> skipping: [localhost] => (item=p2_xyz)  
> skipping: [localhost] 
>
> PLAY RECAP 
> *******************************************************************************************************
>  
>
> localhost                  : ok=3    changed=0    unreachable=0 
>    failed=0    skipped=1    rescued=0    ignored=0
>   
>
> I did this in a hurry, so there may be mistakes or more awesome ways of 
> doing this. YMMV
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 2:05 PM Andrew Latham <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Rob
>>
>> Trying to follow along, So on Task 3 you want to iterate over the list 
>> t_list and match if the digit is in variable s? First thought is that you 
>> are testing if an int is a string.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 12:00 PM [email protected] <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all - I think I'm losing my mind.  Can anyone explain why every 
>>> iteration of task 3 is being skipped (compare w/ task 2, especially)?
>>>
>>> (ansible2_12_8) rowagn@mlb656 client % cat d.yml
>>> - hosts: all
>>>   gather_facts: no
>>>   vars:
>>>     s: '1 2 3'
>>>     t: p1_xyz
>>>     t_list:
>>>       - p1_xyz
>>>       - p2_xyz
>>>
>>>   tasks:
>>>   - name: task 1
>>>     debug:
>>>       msg: '{{ ( t | regex_replace("^p(\d+).*$", "\1") ) in s }}'
>>>
>>>   - name: task 2
>>>     debug:
>>>       msg: '{{ ( item | regex_replace("^p(\d+).*$", "\1") ) in s }}'
>>>     loop: "{{ t_list }}"
>>>
>>>   - name: task 3
>>>     debug:
>>>       msg: "{{ item }} is in s"
>>>     loop: "{{ t_list }}"
>>>     when: ( item | regex_replace("^p(\d+).*$", "\1") ) in s
>>> (ansible2_12_8) rowagn@mlb656 client % ansible-playbook d.yml -i 
>>> ~/localhost
>>>
>>> PLAY [all] 
>>> **********************************************************************************************************
>>>
>>> TASK [task 1] 
>>> *******************************************************************************************************
>>> ok: [localhost] => {
>>>     "msg": true
>>> }
>>>
>>> TASK [task 2] 
>>> *******************************************************************************************************
>>> ok: [localhost] => (item=p1_xyz) => {
>>>     "msg": true
>>> }
>>> ok: [localhost] => (item=p2_xyz) => {
>>>     "msg": true
>>> }
>>>
>>> TASK [task 3] 
>>> *******************************************************************************************************
>>> skipping: [localhost] => (item=p1_xyz)
>>> skipping: [localhost] => (item=p2_xyz)
>>> skipping: [localhost]
>>>
>>> PLAY RECAP 
>>> **********************************************************************************************************
>>> localhost                  : ok=2    changed=0    unreachable=0   
>>>  failed=0    skipped=1    rescued=0    ignored=0
>>>
>>> I've started at this for hours.
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
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