From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-10-13T02:26:43+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML: Integers in YPATH

On Tuesday 12 October 2004 01:16 pm, James F. Hranicky wrote:
| On Tuesday 12 October 2004 13:10, James F. Hranicky wrote:
| >                         Name        :   myserv
| >                         Ether       :   00:00:00:00:00:02
| >                         Arch        :   x86
| >                         OS          :   linux
|
| [del]
|
| >     % ruby /tmp/x.rb /tmp/x.yaml x2
| >     [{"Name"=>"myserv", "Arch"=>"x86", "OS"=>"linux", "Ether"=>2}]
|
| Drat -- I just noticed the ethernet address was interpreted as
| 2 as well. I don't suppose there's an easy way to just tell YAML
| to not do any conversions, is there?

Looky, looky! Someone wants option #1 ;)

Sorry, inside joke from yaml mailing list --you can put quotes around them or 
(maybe) preface with !str.

                         Ether       :   '00:00:00:00:00:02'

or

                         Ether       :   !str 00:00:00:00:00:02

T.