From: mike@... (Mike Stok)
Date: 2004-02-16T02:59:54+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML and quoted strings

In article <slrnc2v9sf.jv2.childNOSPAM@child.ha.pwr.wroc.pl>,
Marek Janukowicz  <childNOSPAM@t17.ds.pwr.wroc.pl> wrote:

>Yes, I know YAML can handle string containing quotes. But my YAML files
>are to be created by a user by hand and I find the "'foo'" notation
>ugly. OTOH maybe I just expect too much...

Well, YAML is constrained to have some structure, and you could use a
trimmed block e.g.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'yaml'

s = YAML.load(<<ETX)
--- 
key1: 
  - |-
    'foo'
  - |-
    "bar"
  - |-
    "O'Brien"
ETX

puts "got #{s.inspect}"

which produces got {"key1"=>["'foo'", "\"bar\"", "\"O'Brien\""]}

.... but here you have to be careful with indentation, and you still have
to be aware of what's significant to YAML.  The section about blocks in
http://yaml4r.sourceforge.net/cookbook/ may be useful as there are
variations on | and > which may suit your purpose better than |-.

Hope this helps,

Mike
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