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The handling of multi-line strings is needlessly complex and can easily end up in white-space getting eaten unintentionally.

deathanatos 3y ago
… really? I feel like for multi-line strings, I almost always use |, and only |. It takes the indented block as-is, which I feel like is going to be what you'd want … always? I think maybe once, ever, I used > to fold some whitespace…? I know the chomping & indent indicators exist, but I feel like I've only ever seen those in programmatically generated YAML. I have trouble envisioning a real-world use-case that is going to make me pull them out. They're a facet of the language that feels as if it exists solely for a processor that might need to emit any possible string, which | would not permit, and the inline strings might be uglier. That said … there is a post like yours in every YAML thread. But I think those of us that understand YAML … I'm having a hard time grokking what you're doing that causes consternation.
- TomSwirly 3y ago
  > It takes the indented block as-is, which I feel like is going to be what you'd want … always? What if you are writing primarily paragraphs? What if you want extra blank lines at the end of a block? Or no carriage return at all? In my reading, unscientifically I feel I see the `>` text formatter most often, then almost as often `|`, then `>-` occasionally, then `>+` just one time.
  - deathanatos 3y ago
    That's a big what-if, I guess. If you're okay with line wrapping … do line-wrapping & |, if you're not … don't do line wrapping & |? I'm not usually putting prose into YAML, outside of comments. I think most of my blocks are scripts, small data files, long queries, the like. That's sort of why I was looking for a (perhaps non-hypothetical) use case.
- neuromanser 3y ago
  > for multi-line strings, I almost always use |, and only |. It takes the indented block as-is Except it doesn't. Try using steps: - run: | > f echo not redirected in Github Actions.

deathanatos 3y ago

… really? I feel like for multi-line strings, I almost always use |, and only |. It takes the indented block as-is, which I feel like is going to be what you'd want … always? I think maybe once, ever, I used > to fold some whitespace…? I know the chomping & indent indicators exist, but I feel like I've only ever seen those in programmatically generated YAML. I have trouble envisioning a real-world use-case that is going to make me pull them out. They're a facet of the language that feels as if it exists solely for a processor that might need to emit any possible string, which | would not permit, and the inline strings might be uglier. That said … there is a post like yours in every YAML thread. But I think those of us that understand YAML … I'm having a hard time grokking what you're doing that causes consternation.

TomSwirly 3y ago
> It takes the indented block as-is, which I feel like is going to be what you'd want … always? What if you are writing primarily paragraphs? What if you want extra blank lines at the end of a block? Or no carriage return at all? In my reading, unscientifically I feel I see the `>` text formatter most often, then almost as often `|`, then `>-` occasionally, then `>+` just one time.
- deathanatos 3y ago
  That's a big what-if, I guess. If you're okay with line wrapping … do line-wrapping & |, if you're not … don't do line wrapping & |? I'm not usually putting prose into YAML, outside of comments. I think most of my blocks are scripts, small data files, long queries, the like. That's sort of why I was looking for a (perhaps non-hypothetical) use case.
neuromanser 3y ago
> for multi-line strings, I almost always use |, and only |. It takes the indented block as-is Except it doesn't. Try using steps: - run: | > f echo not redirected in Github Actions.