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yamlpipeescapingcharacter

how to escape the pipe character ("|") in yaml files as key?

Is there an explicit way to escape the | character in yaml files? I don't want to use the pipe literal, but the character itself.

I tried the following yaml: "A||B": "ASCENDING"

Tried also: "A\|\|B": "ASCENDING"

but when reading the yaml I see: "AB": "ASCENDING"

Solution

  • You should wrap it with the square brackets "[A||B]"