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| author | James Cassell <code@james.cassell.me> | 2019-03-07 14:51:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Sam Doran <sdoran@redhat.com> | 2019-03-07 14:51:19 +0100 |
| commit | e55e8fe2c465a32d09fccf8de4f2aab25c7d6342 (patch) | |
| tree | 56896913a36f6269a55be892be0e11a179c790e5 /docs | |
| parent | httpapi/nxos_facts: raise ConnectionError is missing `code` (#53406) (diff) | |
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regex_escape: support POSIX basic regex (#50327)
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/playbooks_filters.rst | 9 |
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diff --git a/docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/playbooks_filters.rst b/docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/playbooks_filters.rst index ab0a5f3f18..6b55c0d48f 100644 --- a/docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/playbooks_filters.rst +++ b/docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/playbooks_filters.rst @@ -1075,11 +1075,18 @@ To replace text in a string with regex, use the "regex_replace" filter:: .. versionadded:: 2.0 -To escape special characters within a regex, use the "regex_escape" filter:: +To escape special characters within a standard python regex, use the "regex_escape" filter (using the default re_type='python' option):: # convert '^f.*o(.*)$' to '\^f\.\*o\(\.\*\)\$' {{ '^f.*o(.*)$' | regex_escape() }} +.. versionadded:: 2.8 + +To escape special characters within a POSIX basic regex, use the "regex_escape" filter with the re_type='posix_basic' option:: + + # convert '^f.*o(.*)$' to '\^f\.\*o(\.\*)\$' + {{ '^f.*o(.*)$' | regex_escape('posix_basic') }} + Kubernetes Filters `````````````````` |