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layout: "language"
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page_title: "indent - Functions - Configuration Language"
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sidebar_current: "docs-funcs-string-indent"
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description: |-
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The indent function adds a number of spaces to the beginnings of all but the
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first line of a given multi-line string.
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---
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# `indent` Function
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-> **Note:** This page is about Terraform 0.12 and later. For Terraform 0.11 and
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earlier, see
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[0.11 Configuration Language: Interpolation Syntax](../../configuration-0-11/interpolation.html).
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`indent` adds a given number of spaces to the beginnings of all but the first
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line in a given multi-line string.
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```hcl
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indent(num_spaces, string)
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```
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## Examples
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This function is useful for inserting a multi-line string into an
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already-indented context in another string:
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```
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> " items: ${indent(2, "[\n foo,\n bar,\n]\n")}"
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items: [
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foo,
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bar,
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]
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```
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The first line of the string is not indented so that, as above, it can be
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placed after an introduction sequence that has already begun the line.
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