@ -51,19 +51,19 @@ To match strings against a substring or a regular expression, use the ``match``,
tasks:
- debug:
msg: "matched pattern 1"
when: url is match("https://example.com/users/.*/resources/")
when: url is match("https://example.com/users/.*/resources")
- debug:
msg: "matched pattern 2"
when: url is search("/users/.*/resources/.*")
when: url is search("users/.*/resources/.*")
- debug:
msg: "matched pattern 3"
when: url is search("/users/")
when: url is search("users")
- debug:
msg: "matched pattern 4"
when: url is regex("example.com/\w+/foo")
when: url is regex("example\.com/\w+/foo")
``match`` succeeds if it finds the pattern at the beginning of the string, while ``search`` succeeds if it finds the pattern anywhere within string. By default, ``regex`` works like ``search``, but ``regex`` can be configured to perform other tests as well, by passing the ``match_type`` keyword argument. In particular, ``match_type`` determines the ``re`` method that gets used to perform the search. The full list can be found in the relevant Python documentation `here <https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#regular-expression-objects>`_.