@mallory_cormier
You can use the regex_search filter in Ansible to display nth matches in a string. Here is an example:
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- name: Display nth match using regex_search
hosts: localhost
tasks:
- name: Set a string containing multiple matches
set_fact:
my_string: "aaa123bbb456ccc789"
- name: Display 2nd match
debug:
msg: "{{ my_string | regex_search('([0-9]+)', '\1', nth=2) }}
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In the regex_search filter, the first argument is the regular expression pattern, the second argument is the capture group in the pattern to extract, and the nth parameter specifies which match to display (in this case, the 2nd match).