Using an Ansible variable in a Jinja statement?

[sly shoal]

I am trying to pass an Ansible variable to an if/then/else statement in Jinja, but it is not recognizing it as a variable. I know the "stacked mustaches" are not supported, but I also tried the square brackets [ ] and that didn't work either. Can anyone clue me in on a way to do this? This works when I am put an actual value in there for {{ protection_type }}, but not when I try to use a variable.

Basically, I'm just checking to see if a particular string exists within the "volume_comment" variable:

  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    protection_present:
      "{%- if volume_comment | regex_search('.*{{ protection_type }}.*') -%}
        false
      {%- else -%}
        true
      {%- endif -%}"

[wispy rover]

hi @sly shoal
can you try something like below?

    - name: Check to see if the volume comment contains a note that no mirrors should be present
      ansible.builtin.set_fact:
        protection_present: >
          {% if volume_comment | regex_search('.*{{ protection_type }}.*') %}
            false
          {% else %}
            true
          {% endif %}

[sly shoal]

Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to have helped. It still returns "true" if I try to pass the variable, but it will return "false" if I explicitly put the variable value in there. But, now, it is adding a "\n" to the true or false.

[cold quail]

From your example I don't see why regex is even necessary. If you only search for a substring try this:

{%- if protection_type in volume_comment -%}