github.com/muratcelep/terraform@v1.1.0-beta2-not-internal-4/website/docs/language/functions/indent.html.md (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "language" 3 page_title: "indent - Functions - Configuration Language" 4 sidebar_current: "docs-funcs-string-indent" 5 description: |- 6 The indent function adds a number of spaces to the beginnings of all but the 7 first line of a given multi-line string. 8 --- 9 10 # `indent` Function 11 12 `indent` adds a given number of spaces to the beginnings of all but the first 13 line in a given multi-line string. 14 15 ```hcl 16 indent(num_spaces, string) 17 ``` 18 19 ## Examples 20 21 This function is useful for inserting a multi-line string into an 22 already-indented context in another string: 23 24 ``` 25 > " items: ${indent(2, "[\n foo,\n bar,\n]\n")}" 26 items: [ 27 foo, 28 bar, 29 ] 30 ``` 31 32 The first line of the string is not indented so that, as above, it can be 33 placed after an introduction sequence that has already begun the line.