YAML

YAML Multiline

Thanks to Steve Bennett on Stackoverflow

In this table, _ means space character. \n means “newline character”, except for the “in-line newlines” row, where it means literally a backslash and an n).

	>	|		”	’	>-	>+	|-	| +
Trailing spaces	Kept	Kept				Kept	Kept	Kept	Kept
Single newline =>	_	\n	_	_	_	_	_	\n	\n
Double newline =>	\n	\n\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n\n	\n\n
Final newline =>	\n	\n					\n		\n
Final dbl nl’s =>							Kept		Kept
In-line newlines	No	No	No	\n	No	No	No	No	No
Spaceless newlines	No	No	No	\	No	No	No	No	No
Single quote	’	’	’	’	’’	’	’	’	’
Double quote	”	”	”	"	”	”	”	”	”
Backslash	\	\	\	\\	\	\	\	\	\
” #”, “: “	Ok	Ok	No	Ok	Ok	Ok	Ok	Ok	Ok
Can start on same line as key	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No