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What to Do With Long Strings in YAML?

What to Do With Long Strings in YAML? YAML already defines this. In this case, there are four methods: |: Newlines under it are preserved as newlines, and the last line ends with a newline. >: Newlines under it are folded into spaces, forming a long string, and the last line ends with a newline. |-: Newlines under it are preserved, but the last line does not end with a newline. >-: Newlines under it are folded into spaces, and the last line does not end with a newline. In short, > and >- improve YAML readability without adding extra newline characters. | and |- keep the string exactly as defined: if you see a newline in YAML, the string contains a newline.

Monday, August 29, 2022 Read
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6 YAML Features most programmers don't know

6 YAML Features most programmers don’t know There are more examples that are similarly dangerous as Tom Ritchford pointed out 013 is mapped to 11 as the leading zero triggers the octal notation 4:30 is mapped to 270. Max Werner Kaul-Gothe and Niklas Baumstark informed me that this is automatically converted to minutes (or seconds?) as it is interpreted as a duration: 4*60 + 30 = 270 . Interestingly, this pattern still “works” with 1:1:1:1:1:1:1:1:4:30 . Multi-Line String mail_signature: | Martin Thoma Tel. +49 123 4567 { "mail_signature": "Martin Thoma\nTel. +49 123 4567" } Anchor The & defined a variable emailAddress with the value "info@example.de". The * then indicated that the name of a variable follows.

Wednesday, July 7, 2021 Read