From fb9740db4c07ef326e35c89af0ff7b4665192305 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Allen <5258565+aveach@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 09:31:00 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Specify numeric range can contain a stride (#68952)

Updated the range creation example to show that you can also specify a stride value when creating a hostname by numeric range.
---
 .../docsite/rst/user_guide/intro_inventory.rst | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/intro_inventory.rst b/docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/intro_inventory.rst
index b9e587ebc0f..7d4317fc132 100644
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/intro_inventory.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/intro_inventory.rst
@@ -169,6 +169,24 @@ In YAML:
       webservers:
         hosts:
           www[01:50].example.com:
+          
+You can specify a stride (increments between sequence numbers) when defining a numeric range of hosts:
+
+In INI:
+
+.. code-block:: text
+
+    [webservers]
+    www[01:50:2].example.com
+
+In YAML:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+    ...
+      webservers:
+        hosts:
+          www[01:50:2].example.com:
 
 For numeric patterns, leading zeros can be included or removed, as desired. Ranges are inclusive. You can also define alphabetic ranges: