Ansible win_lineinfile Assistance

[Joefrey]

Good day all,

Not sure If I'm doing something wrong here or hitting a bug.

Goal is to update the below line.

  <key="Token" value="some_token" />

community.windows.win_lineinfile:

  path: '{{ some_path }}'

  regex: '(.+"Token".+").+(" />)

  line: '$1{{ some_new_token }}$2'

  backrefs: true

I end up with:

$1new_token" />

I cannot get $1 to expand when placed directly next to "{{" in line.

line: '$1 {{ some_new_token }}$2'  # notice space after $1

Results in:

  <key="Token" value=" new_token" />

Changing my regex and line as below is a workaround, but I'd like to know what I'm missing above.

regex: '(.+"Token" value=).+'

line: '$1"{{ some_new_token}}" />'

Thank you for any insight.

[Atul Nasir]

- name: Update XML line with new token
  community.windows.win_lineinfile:
    path: '{{ some_path }}'
    regex: '(<key="Token" value=").+(" />)'
    line: '{{ line | regex_replace("(<key=\\"Token\\" value=).+( \\" />)", "\\1{{ some_new_token }}\\2") }}'
  vars:
    line: '{{ lookup("file", some_path) | regex_replace("(\\r|\\n)", "") }}'