Case statement for setting var in Ansible/Jinja2

Question

I\'m using Ansible with Jinja2 templates, and this is a scenario that I can\'t find a solution for in Ansible\'s documentation or googling around for Jinja2 examples. Here\'

Answer 1

you don't need to set var, because I'm guessing that you trying to set var for some condition later. Just make condition there like

- name: Later task
  shell: "command is here"
  when: {{ existing_ansible_var }} == "string1"

and get a profit