From: Tom Payne <ruby@...>
Date: 2005-12-14T07:53:41+09:00
Subject: Re: How to preserve line endings in strings with YAML? bump

Sorry to bump, but the timing of my initial posting (early hours of 
Sunday morning European time, late Saturday US time, Sunday Japanese 
time) was probably unwise.

Tom Payne wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Normally I would expect that
>   YAML.load(x.to_yaml) == x
> for all sensible values of x.
> 
> However, this does not seem to be the case if the string contains 
> certain new line characters, for example:
>   YAML.load("abc\r\n".to_yaml) # => "abc\n" ("\r" lost)
>   YAML.load("\r\n".to_yaml)    # => ""      ("\r\n" lost)
>   YAML.load("\n".to_yaml)      # => ""      ("\n" lost)
> 
> My question is: how can I configure YAML to preserve my line endings? 
> I'm using Ruby 1.8.4-preview2 and have Googled for a solution without 
> success. Note that the :UseBlock option to to_yaml does not help.
> 
> The reason that I need this functionality is that I would like to store 
> a string which includes a digital signature in a YAML document. Any 
> corruption of the line endings changes the string and consequently 
> invalidates the digital signature.
> 
> Thanks very much,
> --
> Tom

No more bumps (promise!)

Cheers,
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Tom

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