Adds doc for new slice filter (#35904)

* Adds doc for new slice filter

* Fixes example

* Adds empty line

* Moves documentation to other section and removes bad suggestion
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tterranigma 2018-02-08 18:41:25 +01:00 committed by Brian Coca
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@ -893,7 +893,7 @@ To create a UUID from a string (new in version 1.9)::
To cast values as certain types, such as when you input a string as "True" from a vars_prompt and the system
doesn't know it is a boolean value::
- debug:
- debug:
msg: test
when: some_string_value | bool
@ -904,6 +904,17 @@ To make use of one attribute from each item in a list of complex variables, use
# get a comma-separated list of the mount points (e.g. "/,/mnt/stuff") on a host
{{ ansible_mounts|map(attribute='mount')|join(',') }}
.. versionadded:: 2.5
The `slice` filter can be used to extract the values of specific keys from a
hash::
{{ {'x': 1, 'y': 2, 'z': 3 } | slice(['x', 'z']) }}
This will result in::
[1, 2]
To get date object from string use the `to_datetime` filter, (new in version in 2.2)::
# get amount of seconds between two dates, default date format is %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S but you can pass your own one
@ -919,7 +930,7 @@ This set of filters returns a list of combined lists.
To get permutations of a list::
- name: give me largest permutations (order matters)
debug:
debug:
msg: "{{ [1,2,3,4,5]|permutations|list }}"
- name: give me permutations of sets of three