From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-07-26T07:03:49+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML Broken?

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, David Pollak wrote:

> Folks,
>
> It seems that when I YAML.dump arrays that contain long strings that
> contain non-printables and sometimes UTF-8 sequences, the YAML'ed
> objects can't be read back in.  Is this a known issue?  If so, is
> there a known work-around?  Alternatively, are there any other ways to
> serialize objects (JSON doesn't work because eval() barfs on very long
> strings)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David

can you show an example?


   harp:~ > ruby -r yaml -e'  nul = 0.chr;  y(YAML.load(YAML.dump(nul)) == nul) '
   true

   harp:~ > ruby -v
   ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-01) [i686-linux]


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