SnakeYaml: escaping new line characters in yaml

Question

I've just tried the following code snippet in a groovy console

import org.yaml.snakeyaml.Yaml
o = new Yaml().load("a: a\\nb")
o.a

and it returns

a\nb

instead of

a
b

I've followed this guide

I was wondering if it's a bug, or I'm doing something wrong...

Answer 1

I've found it out

To be escaped, the value has to be between double quotes, like this:

import org.yaml.snakeyaml.Yaml
o = new Yaml().load('a: "a\\nb"')
o.a

output:

groovy> import org.yaml.snakeyaml.Yaml 
groovy> o = new Yaml().load('a: "a\\nb"') 
groovy> o.a 

Result: a
b