[ ruby-Bugs-1590 ] Ruby's YAML parser doesn't ignore trailing whitespace

Bugs item #1590, was opened at 2005-03-07 15:01
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Category: Standard Library
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Josh Purinton (joshpurinton)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: Ruby's YAML parser doesn't ignore trailing whitespace

Initial Comment:
The YAML module in Ruby 1.8.2 incorrectly includes trailing whitespace
in hash values. For example, it includes the trailing tab in the hash
entry here: 

$ ruby -e 'require "yaml"; x = YAML::load("a: b\t\n"); raise "wrong"
if x["a"] =~ /\t/'

This is wrong, and can lead to mysterious problems that are hard to debug.

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