Ansible set_fact value of No converted into False

Question

I'm having an annoying issue with set_fact,I set a var with value No but once I call the var ansible converts it to False is there a way around it?

Answer 1

We can use multi line scalar YAML syntax to get around this and have the text No in the file contents.

Consider a simple text file sample.txt as below:

works? Yes

I am using an example with lineinfile (Linux), but should work similarly for Windows. A simple playbook with below tasks:

- set_fact:
    var1: >
      No
- lineinfile:
    path: /tmp/sample.txt
    line: "works? {{ var1 }}"
    regexp: "^works"

When this playbook is run:

-works? Yes
+works? No