# # Examples from the Preview section of the YAML specification # (http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/#Preview) # # Sequence of scalars --- - Mark McGwire - Sammy Sosa - Ken Griffey # Mapping scalars to scalars --- hr: 65 # Home runs avg: 0.278 # Batting average rbi: 147 # Runs Batted In # Mapping scalars to sequences --- american: - Boston Red Sox - Detroit Tigers - New York Yankees national: - New York Mets - Chicago Cubs - Atlanta Braves # Sequence of mappings --- - name: Mark McGwire hr: 65 avg: 0.278 - name: Sammy Sosa hr: 63 avg: 0.288 # Sequence of sequences --- - [name , hr, avg ] - [Mark McGwire, 65, 0.278] - [Sammy Sosa , 63, 0.288] # Mapping of mappings --- Mark McGwire: {hr: 65, avg: 0.278} Sammy Sosa: { hr: 63, avg: 0.288 } # Two documents in a stream --- # Ranking of 1998 home runs - Mark McGwire - Sammy Sosa - Ken Griffey --- # Team ranking - Chicago Cubs - St Louis Cardinals # Documents with the end indicator --- time: 20:03:20 player: Sammy Sosa action: strike (miss) ... --- time: 20:03:47 player: Sammy Sosa action: grand slam ... # Comments --- hr: # 1998 hr ranking - Mark McGwire - Sammy Sosa rbi: # 1998 rbi ranking - Sammy Sosa - Ken Griffey # Anchors and aliases --- hr: - Mark McGwire # Following node labeled SS - &SS Sammy Sosa rbi: - *SS # Subsequent occurrence - Ken Griffey # Mapping between sequences --- ? - Detroit Tigers - Chicago cubs : - 2001-07-23 ? [ New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves ] : [ 2001-07-02, 2001-08-12, 2001-08-14 ] # Inline nested mapping --- # products purchased - item : Super Hoop quantity: 1 - item : Basketball quantity: 4 - item : Big Shoes quantity: 1 # Literal scalars --- | # ASCII art \//||\/|| // || ||__ # Folded scalars --- > Mark McGwire's year was crippled by a knee injury. # Preserved indented block in a folded scalar --- > Sammy Sosa completed another fine season with great stats. 63 Home Runs 0.288 Batting Average What a year! # Indentation determines scope --- name: Mark McGwire accomplishment: > Mark set a major league home run record in 1998. stats: | 65 Home Runs 0.278 Batting Average # Quoted scalars --- unicode: "Sosa did fine.\u263A" control: "\b1998\t1999\t2000\n" hex esc: "\x0d\x0a is \r\n" single: '"Howdy!" he cried.' quoted: ' # not a ''comment''.' tie-fighter: '|\-*-/|' # Multi-line flow scalars --- plain: This unquoted scalar spans many lines. quoted: "So does this quoted scalar.\n" # Integers --- canonical: 12345 decimal: +12_345 sexagesimal: 3:25:45 octal: 014 hexadecimal: 0xC # Floating point --- canonical: 1.23015e+3 exponential: 12.3015e+02 sexagesimal: 20:30.15 fixed: 1_230.15 negative infinity: -.inf not a number: .NaN # Miscellaneous --- null: ~ true: boolean false: boolean string: '12345' # Timestamps --- canonical: 2001-12-15T02:59:43.1Z iso8601: 2001-12-14t21:59:43.10-05:00 spaced: 2001-12-14 21:59:43.10 -5 date: 2002-12-14 # Various explicit tags --- not-date: !!str 2002-04-28 picture: !!binary | R0lGODlhDAAMAIQAAP//9/X 17unp5WZmZgAAAOfn515eXv Pz7Y6OjuDg4J+fn5OTk6enp 56enmleECcgggoBADs= application specific tag: !something | The semantics of the tag above may be different for different documents. # Global tags %TAG ! tag:clarkevans.com,2002: --- !shape # Use the ! handle for presenting # tag:clarkevans.com,2002:circle - !circle center: &ORIGIN {x: 73, y: 129} radius: 7 - !line start: *ORIGIN finish: { x: 89, y: 102 } - !label start: *ORIGIN color: 0xFFEEBB text: Pretty vector drawing. # Unordered sets --- !!set # sets are represented as a # mapping where each key is # associated with the empty string ? Mark McGwire ? Sammy Sosa ? Ken Griff # Ordered mappings --- !!omap # ordered maps are represented as # a sequence of mappings, with # each mapping having one key - Mark McGwire: 65 - Sammy Sosa: 63 - Ken Griffy: 58 # Full length example --- !<tag:clarkevans.com,2002:invoice> invoice: 34843 date : 2001-01-23 bill-to: &id001 given : Chris family : Dumars address: lines: | 458 Walkman Dr. Suite #292 city : Royal Oak state : MI postal : 48046 ship-to: *id001 product: - sku : BL394D quantity : 4 description : Basketball price : 450.00 - sku : BL4438H quantity : 1 description : Super Hoop price : 2392.00 tax : 251.42 total: 4443.52 comments: Late afternoon is best. Backup contact is Nancy Billsmer @ 338-4338. # Another full-length example --- Time: 2001-11-23 15:01:42 -5 User: ed Warning: This is an error message for the log file --- Time: 2001-11-23 15:02:31 -5 User: ed Warning: A slightly different error message. --- Date: 2001-11-23 15:03:17 -5 User: ed Fatal: Unknown variable "bar" Stack: - file: TopClass.py line: 23 code: | x = MoreObject("345\n") - file: MoreClass.py line: 58 code: |- foo = bar