yaml sequence

[Ara.T.Howard]

i noticed this today:

irb(main):014:0> s = 'seq: [4,2]'
"seq: [4,2]"

irb(main):015:0> YAML.load s
{"seq"=>[42]}
^
^
^
ONE entry

irb(main):016:0> s = 'seq: [4,2,forty,two]'
"seq: [4,2,forty,two]"

irb(main):017:0> YAML.load s
{"seq"=>["4,2,forty,two"]}

it works if you do

irb(main):018:0> s = 'seq: [4, 2]'
"seq: [4, 2]"
^
^
^
SPACE included

irb(main):019:0> YAML.load s
{"seq"=>[4, 2]}

for all i know, it may already be fixed...

now the question, any idea how to EMIT

"seq: [4, 2]"

does seem to be an options key to 'flatten' array output...

-a



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