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Dumping add quote to string even it is not necessary

See original GitHub issue

As title.

Test Code

const jsYaml = require("js-yaml");
const fs = require("fs");
const yamlStr = jsYaml.dump({ url: "https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml" });
fs.writeFileSync("foo.yml", yamlStr, { encoding: "utf8" });

Expected Result

url: https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml

Actual Result

url: 'https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml'

Problem

https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml/blob/b6d260927b875404eac8b5e610f41d2f8fbe2425/lib/js-yaml/dumper.js#L294

https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml/blob/b6d260927b875404eac8b5e610f41d2f8fbe2425/lib/js-yaml/dumper.js#L192-L205

All of these characters ( except0xFEFF ) are safe inside string. Only colon cannot be followed by space or placed at the end of line.

Issue Analytics

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Created 5 years ago
Reactions:2
Comments:11 (8 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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rlidwkacommented, Dec 10, 2020

Fixed in https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml/commit/db3f52985ba6f3076e6fb4318ca0c5c3c578ccba (in dev branch currently, to be released later).

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zeropccommented, Jul 2, 2020

Having a same problem here. Since only colon and hash characters are limited in flow scalars, is a PR still welcome by now?

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