YAML

Structure

Block and flow style

Block style

Lists:

fruits:
  - apple
  - banana
  - orange

Maps/dictionary:

address:
  street: "H.C. Andersens vej 9"
  city: Viborg
  zip: 8800

Flow style

Lists:

fruits: [apple, banana, orange]

Maps:/dictionary:

address: {street: "H.C. Andersens vej 9",  city: Viborg,  zip: 8800 }

Data types

Scalars

• Strings
  • text1: "This is a string"
  • text2: 'This is also a string'
  • text3: This is a string too
  • text4: "2999"
  • text5: | #Multiline string - Preserve new line chars

 Line1
 Line2

• • text6: > #Multiline string - Convert new line to space

 Line1
 Line2

• Numbers
  • 2999
  • 2e+10
• Booleans
  • true
  • false
• Dates
  • "2025-01-01" # ISO-8601 standard
• Null
  • Name: null
  • Name: ~
  • Name: