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YAML tags work this way. E.g., 2002-04-28 is a date (because it looks like one) but !!str 2002-04-28 is a string.

• jerrac 8y ago
  I had never heard of tags before. Thanks! So, would this work? ports: https: enabled: yes !!int port: 443 Then if someone is copy/pasting and tries to use "blah" as the value, the !!int tag would cause the yaml parser to throw an error. Right?
  • spiralx 8y ago
    No, because tags specify a type for the value, not the key, so you could use ports: https: port: !!str 443 to parse the same as { "ports": { "https": { "port": "443" } } } in JSON
    • jerrac 8y ago
      Ah, I had my syntax wrong. Thanks!