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How would one specify the multiline strings that have leading spaces on some lines?
If I define a variable as
multiline_str: |
foo
bar
baz
And then write it to a file using
- name: write multiline string
copy: content="{{ multiline_str }}" dest="/path/to/file"
Then the target file contents is
foo
bar
baz
What is the trick here?
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Python multi line strings mean strings that are in more than one line. It is easy to generate strings in a single line but there are special methods to create multi-line strings. The following is an example of a multi-line string in Python.
YAML allows you to write strings across multiple lines in two ways: verbatim and folded. YAML strips are leading indents in these multiline blocks. YAML first concludes the inclusive indentation level inside a multiline block.
If you want to postprocess a multiline string to trim out the parts you don't need, you should consider the textwrap module or the technique for postprocessing docstrings presented in PEP 257:
Python indentation rules are not applicable to multiline strings. All the escape sequences such as newline (n), tab-space (t) are considered as a part of string if the multiline string is created using triple quotes.
Try this.
- name: write multiline string
copy:
content: "{{ multiline_str }}"
dest: /path/to/file
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