DOCUMENTATION: name: search author: Ansible Core short_description: Does string match a regular expression description: - Compare string against regular expression using Python's C(search) function. options: _input: description: String to match. type: string required: True pattern: description: Regex to match against. type: string required: True ignorecase: description: Use case insenstive matching. type: boolean default: False multiline: description: Match against mulitple lines in string. type: boolean default: False EXAMPLES: | url: "https://example.com/users/foo/resources/bar" foundmatch: url is search("https://example.com/users/.*/resources") alsomatch: url is search("users/.*/resources") RETURN: _value: description: Returns C(True) if there is a match, C(False) otherwise. type: boolean