Hi, I cannot get the regex to work in puppet for "file_line" it work in a regex tool file_line { "applicationHost.config": ensure => 'present', path => 'c:/windows/sysnative/inetsrv/config/applicationHost.config', match => '\s{1,12}<add name="Public" .*', line => '<add name="Public" autoStart="true" startMode="AlwaysRunning" managedRuntimeVersion="v4.0">', however below works if i remove spaces from the file for testing file_line { "applicationHost.config": ensure => 'present', path => 'c:/windows/sysnative/inetsrv/config/applicationHost.config', match => '<add name="Public" .*', line => '<add name="Public" autoStart="true" startMode="AlwaysRunning" managedRuntimeVersion="v4.0">', the file has 12 spaces in front of the text. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/3f4376c4-d0aa-4c73-9364-1e64483f944c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.