From: Nuralanur@... Date: 2006-06-08T01:08:43+09:00 Subject: Re: Possible YAML bug with quoted symbols? -------------------------------1149696513 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I don't think this is specific of yaml - it's done to say that your variable name is a String that contains a ' or a " at the beginning and end , so \"my_string\" or \'my_string\' are Strings with quotes in them and not the same as the Strings a="my_string" or a='my_string' . Best regards, Axel -------------------------------1149696513--