Question about partial matching in Ansible 2.2

[Dave]

Is it possible to test for conditions based on partial matches? I'm trying to test for variables that match a specific /24 range and I have the following so far:

 - name: If the IP address is destined for the .1 subnet...

     when: set_machinename | match("192.168.1.")

I tried a wildcard as shown here but that didn't seem to work either. Any ideas?

[Dick Visser]

Don't do string manipulation on IP addresses - use the dedicated
ipaddr filter instead:

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_filters_ipaddr.html


Your 'when' construct would look like:

when: set_machinename | ipaddr('192.168.1.0/24')



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