(on Wikipedia)
https://yaml.org/ [ 1 ]

A human-friendly data serialization standard for all programming languages.

• YAML: YAML Ain’t Markup Language

Simple Example ∞

Dump ∞

require 'yaml'
variable = [ 1, 2, 'three' ]
variable = YAML::dump( variable )
puts variable.inspect
# =>
# "--- \n- 1\n- 2\n- three\n"

Load ∞

require 'yaml'
variable = [ 1, 2, 'three' ]
variable = YAML::dump( variable )
puts variable.inspect
# =>
# "--- \n- 1\n- 2\n- three\n"
variable = YAML::load( variable )
puts variable.inspect
# =>
# [1, 2, "three"]

Footnotes

1. was https://web.archive.org/web/20110805114450/http://santoro.tk:80/mirror/ruby-core/classes/YAML.html[ ↩ ]