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Document match/search tests (#64775)

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* clarify `search` vs `match` tests

* string test docs: fix rst formatting
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James Cassell 2019-11-13 12:14:10 -05:00 committed by Alicia Cozine
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@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Such as::
Testing strings
```````````````
To match strings against a substring or a regular expression, use the "match", "search" or "regex" filters::
To match strings against a substring or a regular expression, use the ``match``, ``search`` or ``regex`` filters::
vars:
url: "http://example.com/users/foo/resources/bar"
@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ To match strings against a substring or a regular expression, use the "match", "
tasks:
- debug:
msg: "matched pattern 1"
when: url is match("http://example.com/users/.*/resources/.*")
when: url is match("http://example.com/users/.*/resources/")
- debug:
msg: "matched pattern 2"
@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ To match strings against a substring or a regular expression, use the "match", "
msg: "matched pattern 4"
when: url is regex("example.com/\w+/foo")
'match' requires zero or more characters at the beginning of the string, while 'search' only requires matching a subset of the string. By default, 'regex' works like `search`, but `regex` can be configured to perform other tests as well.
``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.
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