Playbook is broken

regex for unescaped commas on line 21 continues to thwart progress

playbooks/allsearch_banner.yml

@@ -2,12 +2,13 @@
 # by default this playbook runs in the staging environment
 # to run in production, pass '-e runtime_env=production'
 - name: change the Allsearch banner
-  hosts: allsearch_api_{{ runtime_env | default('staging') }}
+  # hosts: allsearch_api_{{ runtime_env | default('staging') }}
+  hosts: localhost
   remote_user: deploy
   vars:
     - passenger_root: "/opt/allsearch_api/current"
     - text_no_comma: "dog cat"
-    - text_escaped_comma: "dog\, cat"
+    # - text_escaped_comma: "dog\, cat"
     - text_unescaped_comma: "dog, cat"
   vars_files:
     - ../group_vars/allsearch_api/vault.yml
@@ -17,13 +18,21 @@
   tasks:
     - name: Check the text for commas
       ansible.builtin.set_fact:
-      # the regex (?<!\\), matches any unescaped comma (\,)
+        first_fact: "{{ text_unescaped_comma | regex_replace('?<!\\,', 'commanext,') }}"
+      # the regex (?<!\\), matches any unescaped comma (,)
       # example filter {{ 'ansible' | regex_replace('^a.*i(.*)$', 'a\\1') }} returns able
 
+    - name: Show me first_fact
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        var: first_fact
 
-    - name: Run the Rake task
-      ansible.builtin.shell: "cd {{ passenger_root }} && /usr/bin/bash --login -c 'RAILS_ENV={{ rails_env | default('staging') }} bundle exec rake banner:update['{{ banner_text }}',{{alert_status | default('info') }},{{dismissible | default('true')}},{{autoclear | default('false')}}]'"
-      run_once: true
+    # - name: Escape unescaped commas
+    #   ansible.builtin.set_fact:
+    #     first_fact: "{{ text_unescaped_comma | regex_replace(?<!\\) }}"
+
+    # - name: Run the Rake task
+    #   ansible.builtin.shell: "cd {{ passenger_root }} && /usr/bin/bash --login -c 'RAILS_ENV={{ rails_env | default('staging') }} bundle exec rake banner:update['{{ banner_text }}',{{alert_status | default('info') }},{{dismissible | default('true')}},{{autoclear | default('false')}}]'"
+    #   run_once: true
       #bundle exec rake banner:update\['new banner',info,true,true\]
       #text,alert_status[info|success|warning|error],dismissible,autoclear