How to escape indicator characters (colon and hyphen) in YAML
delimiter, escaping, yaml
Solution
Quotes:
"url: http://www.some-site.example/"
To clarify, I meant “quote the value” and originally thought the entire thing was the value. If `http://www.some-site.example/` is the value, just quote it like so:
url: "http://www.some-site.example/"
Problem
In a config file, I have a key to which I wish to assign a URL. The problem is that YAML interprets `:` and `-` characters as either creating mappings or lists, so it has a problem with the line ``` url: http://www.some-site.example/ ``` (both because of the colon following HTTP and the hyphen in the middle) Is there an explicit way to escape `:` and `-`? Or would it work to just put the whole thing in single quotes and call it a day?