In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312111608390.6969-100000 / wobblini.net>,
David A. Black <dblack / wobblini.net> wrote:
>Hi --
>
>I'm wondering whether the "#" and everything after it are
>really supposed to be taken out of the string in this
>example:
>
>  irb(main):015:0> YAML.load("---\nstring: one # two")
>  => {"string"=>"one"}
>
>I guess I can wrap it all in quotation marks, but I didn't
>think I had to.

http://www.yaml.org/spec/#.-syntax-throw-Throwaway-comments-

suggests this is the right behaviour; so the quites are necessary.

Hope this helps,

Mike
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