From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-08-15T06:39:25+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.8.0, YAML funny feature

The strings you're using below are not valid YAML, so my parser throws errors. 
These sequences:

  -1
  -
   - 1
   - 2
   - 3
  -2

..need spaces after the dashes.  So here's my IRb session:

  >> YAML::load "- 1\n-\n - 1\n - 2\n - 3\n- 2"
  => [1, [1, 2, 3], 2]
  >> YAML::load "- 1\r\n-\r\n - 1\r\n - 2\r\n - 3\r\n- 2"
  => [1, [1, 2, 3], 2]

So I'm getting back the right arrays with either line ending.  This is with 
Andy's latest Ruby 1.8.0 Windows Installer.

_why

On Sunday 10 August 2003 04:15 pm, Henon wrote:
> irb(main):006:0> YAML::load "-1\n-\n - 1\n - 2\n - 3\n-2"=> [1, [1, 2, 3],
> 2]
> irb(main):007:0> YAML::load "-1\r\n-\r\n - 1\r\n - 2\r\n - 3\r\n-2"
> ArgumentError: parse error on line 5, col 3: `-2'from
> F:/SCRIPT/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:28:in `load'
>         from F:/SCRIPT/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:28:in `load'
>         from (irb):7
> irb(main):010:0> YAML::load "-1\r\n-\r\n - 1\r\n - 2\r\n - 3\r\n-2"=>
> ["1\r", "\r-1\r - 2\r - 3\r", 2]