YAML makes wrong things right - for example, an innocuous colon within one string in a string array makes YAML interpret it as an array of objects. It violates the principle of least astonishment.
Newlines in folded block scalars (>) are subject to line folding, newlines in literal block scalars (|) are not. Line folding replaces a single newline between non-empty lines with a space, and in the case of empty lines, reduces the number of newline characters between the surrounding non-empty lines by one:
However, I am confused about where this syntax comes from or why it works. CTRL + F ing the YAML specification for << reveals that it doesn't appear anywhere in the specification. Yet it's supported by, at the very least, PyYAML and Online YAML Parser. What is this syntax, and how come it doesn't seem to appear in the specification?
What are the differences between YAML and JSON, specifically considering the following things? Performance (encode/decode time) Memory consumption Expression clarity Library availability, ease of ...
So I just started using YAML file instead of application.properties as it is more readable. I see in YAML files they start with ---. I googled and found the below explanation. YAML uses three das...
I saw there are someone using .yaml extension, however, Symfony2 use .yml extension. YAML is a human-readable data serialization format that takes concepts from programming languages such as C, Perl, and Python, and ideas from XML and the data format of electronic mail. YAML is a recursive acronym for "YAML Ain't Markup Language".
YAML provides three flow scalar styles: double-quoted, single-quoted and plain (unquoted). Each provides a different trade-off between readability and expressive power. Double-quoted style: The double-quoted style is specified by surrounding " indicators. This is the only style capable of expressing arbitrary strings, by using \ escape sequences.
The script can parse yaml from a file (function load), parse yaml from a string (function loads) and convert a dictionary into yaml (function dumps). It respects all variable types.
