From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-06-18T07:44:42+09:00
Subject: YAML and Windows newlines

I've run into the following odd behavior using YAML:

   # a = "something: >\r\n  Some text with a\r\n  newline in it.\r\n"
   # b = "something: >\n  Some text with a\n  newline in it.\n"
   # p YAML.load(a)
   {"something"=>"Some text with a\nnewline in it.\n"}
   # p YAML.load(b)
   {"something"=>"Some text with a newline in it.\n"}

Should this be reported as a bug, or are there still known issues with 
how Ruby's yaml processor handles these situations? This kind of threw 
us for a loop in some code generation routines I'm writing at work, 
since we expected the resulting text to all exist on one line. For now, 
the work-around is simple -- just strip out all newlines from the 
string. Just wanted to raise a little warning flag to the list, though, 
and ask if anyone else had run into this.

Oh, and:

   # ruby -v
   ruby 1.8.1 (2004-04-24) [i686-linux-gnu]

-- 
Jamis Buck
jgb3@email.byu.edu
http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis

ruby -h | ruby -e 
'a=[];readlines.join.scan(/-(.)\[e|Kk(\S*)|le.l(..)e|#!(\S*)/) {|r| a << 
r.compact.first };puts "\n>#{a.join(%q/ /)}<\n\n"'