Add new split filter

changelogs/fragments/split-filter.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+- Filters - Add new ``split`` filter for splitting strings

docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/playbooks_filters.rst

@@ -1612,6 +1612,12 @@ To concatenate a list into a string::
 
     {{ list | join(" ") }}
 
+To split a sting into a list::
+
+.. versionadded:: 2.11
+
+    {{ csv_string | split(",") }}
+
 To work with Base64 encoded strings::
 
     {{ encoded | b64decode }}

lib/ansible/plugins/filter/core.py

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 from jinja2.filters import environmentfilter, do_groupby as _do_groupby
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleFilterError, AnsibleFilterTypeError
-from ansible.module_utils.six import iteritems, string_types, integer_types, reraise
+from ansible.module_utils.six import iteritems, string_types, integer_types, reraise, text_type
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import reduce, shlex_quote
 from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_sequence
@@ -662,4 +662,5 @@ def filters(self):
             'dict2items': dict_to_list_of_dict_key_value_elements,
             'items2dict': list_of_dict_key_value_elements_to_dict,
             'subelements': subelements,
+            'split': partial(unicode_wrap, text_type.split),
         }

test/integration/targets/filter_core/tasks/main.yml

@@ -608,3 +608,12 @@
       - thing|quote == "''"
   vars:
     thing: null
+
+- name: split filter
+  assert:
+    that:
+      - splitty|map('split', ',')|flatten|map('int') == [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
+  vars:
+    splitty:
+      - "1,2,3"
+      - "4,5,6"