YAML::Syck - Fast, lightweight YAML loader and dumper
This document describes version 1.04 of YAML::Syck, released February 17, 2008.
use YAML::Syck;
# Set this for interoperability with other YAML/Syck bindings:
# e.g. Load('Yes') becomes 1 and Load('No') becomes ''.
$YAML::Syck::ImplicitTyping = 1;
$data = Load($yaml);
$yaml = Dump($data);
# $file can be an IO object, or a filename
$data = LoadFile($file);
DumpFile($file, $data);
# A string with multiple YAML streams in it
$yaml = Dump(@data);
@data = Load($yaml);
This module provides a Perl interface to the libsyck data serialization
library. It exports the Dump and Load functions for converting
Perl data structures to YAML strings, and the other way around.
NOTE: If you are working with other language's YAML/Syck bindings
(such as Ruby), please set $YAML::Syck::ImplicitTyping to 1 before
calling the Load/Dump functions. The default setting is for
preserving backward-compatibility with YAML.pm.
Defaults to false. Setting this to a true value will make Dump omit the
leading ---\n marker.
Defaults to false. Setting this to a true value will make Dump sort
hash keys.
Defaults to false. Setting this to a true value will make Dump always emit
single quotes instead of bare strings.
Defaults to false. Setting this to a true value will make Load recognize
various implicit types in YAML, such as unquoted true, false, as well as
integers and floating-point numbers. Otherwise, only ~ is recognized to
be undef.
Defaults to false. For Perl 5.8.0 or later, setting this to a true value will
make Load set Unicode flag on for every string that contains valid UTF8
sequences, and make Dump return a unicode string.
Regardless of this flag, Unicode strings are dumped verbatim without escaping; byte strings with high-bit set will be dumped with backslash escaping.
However, because YAML does not distinguish between these two kinds of strings, so this flag will affect loading of both variants of strings.
Defaults to false. For Perl 5.8.0 or later, setting this to a true value will
make Dump generate Base64-encoded !!binary data for all non-Unicode
scalars containing high-bit bytes.
These flags control whether or not to try and eval/deparse perl source code; each of them defaults to false.
Setting $YAML::Syck::UseCode to a true value is equivalent to setting
both $YAML::Syck::LoadCode and $YAML::Syck::DumpCode to true.
Dumping Glob/IO values does not work yet.
This module implements the YAML 1.0 spec. To deal with data in YAML 1.1,
please use the YAML::XS module instead.
The current implementation bundles libsyck source code; if your system has a site-wide shared libsyck, it will not be used.
Tag names such as !!perl/hash:Foo is blessed into the package Foo, but
the !hs/foo and !!hs/Foo tags are blessed into hs::Foo. Note that
this holds true even if the tag contains non-word characters; for example,
!haskell.org/Foo is blessed into haskell.org::Foo. Please use
Class::Rebless to cast it into other user-defined packages.
Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>
Copyright 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 by Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>.
This software is released under the MIT license cited below.
The libsyck code bundled with this library is released by "why the lucky stiff", under a BSD-style license. See the COPYING file for details.
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