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 <dick.vis...@geant.org> 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 ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. 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.
