NAME

    YAML::XS - Perl YAML Serialization using XS and libyaml

SYNOPSIS

        use YAML::XS;
    
        my $yaml = Dump [ 1..4 ];
        my $array = Load $yaml;
    
        my $yaml = DumpFile ("my.yml", [ 1..4 ]);
        my $array = LoadFile "my.yml";

DESCRIPTION

    Kirill Siminov's libyaml is a good YAML library implementation. The C
    library is written precisely to the YAML 1.1 specification, and offers
    YAML 1.2 support. It was originally bound to Python and was later bound
    to Ruby. libsyck is written a bit more elegant, has less bugs, is not
    as strict as libyaml, but misses some YAML features. It can only do
    YAML 1.1

    This module is a Perl XS binding to libyaml which offers Perl somewhat
    acceptable YAML support to date.

    This module exports the functions Dump, Load, DumpFile and LoadFile.
    These functions are intended to work exactly like YAML.pm's
    corresponding functions.

    If you set the option $YAML::XS::IndentlessMap to 0 or undef, YAML::XS
    will behave like with version < 0.70, which creates yml files which
    cannot be read by YAML.pm

    However the loader is stricter than YAML, YAML::Syck and
    CPAN::Meta::YAML i.e. YAML::Tiny as used in core. Set the variable
    $YAML::XS::NonStrict to allow certain reader errors to pass the
    CPAN::Meta validation testsuite.

CONFIGURATION

 Loader Options

    via globals variables only, so far. Affecting Load and LoadFile.

    -- $YAML::XS::NonStrict

    Permit certain reader errors to loosely match other YAML module
    semantics. In detail: Allow "control characters are not allowed". Note
    that any error is stored and returned, just not immediately.

    However the reader error "invalid trailing UTF-8 octet" and all other
    utf8 strictness violations are still fatal.

    And if the structure of the YAML document cannot be parsed, i.e. a
    required value consists only of invalid control characters, the loader
    returns an error, unlike with non-strict YAML modules.

    -- $YAML::XS::LoadCode

    Ignored. If enabled supports deparsing and evaling of code blocks.

 Dumper Options

    via globals variables only, so far. Affecting Dump and DumpFile

    -- $YAML::XS::UseCode

    If enabled supports Dump of CV code blocks via
    YAML::XS::coderef2text().

    -- $YAML::XS::DumpCode

    If enabled supports Dump of CV code blocks via
    YAML::XS::coderef2text().

    -- $YAML::XS::QuoteNumericStrings

    When true (the default) strings that look like numbers but have not
    been numified will be quoted when dumping.

    This ensures leading that things like leading zeros and other
    formatting are preserved.

    -- $YAML::XS::IndentlessMap

    Default 0

    Set to 1 or a true value to fallback to the old YAML::XS behavior to
    omit the indentation of map keys, which arguably violates the YAML
    spec, is different to all other YAML libraries and causes YAML.pm to
    fail.

    With 0

         authors:
           - this author

    With 1

         authors:
         - this author

    -- $YAML::XS::Indent

    Default 2

    -- $YAML::XS::BestWidth

    Default 80

    Control text wrapping.

    -- $YAML::XS::Canonical

    Default 1

    Set to undef or 0 to disable sorting map keys.

    -- $YAML::XS::Unicode

    Default 1

    Set to undef or 0 to disallow unescaped non-ASCII characters.

    -- $YAML::XS::Encoding

    Default utf8

    Set to any, utf8, utf16le or utf16be

    -- $YAML::XS::LineBreak

    Default ln

    Set to any, cr, ln or crln.

    -- $YAML::XS::OpenEnded

    Default 0

    Set to 1 or a true value to embed the yaml into "...". If an explicit
    document end is required.

USING YAML::XS WITH UNICODE

    Handling unicode properly in Perl can be a pain. YAML::XS only deals
    with streams of utf8 octets. Just remember this:

        $perl = Load($utf8_octets);
        $utf8_octets = Dump($perl);

    There are many, many places where things can go wrong with unicode. If
    you are having problems, use Devel::Peek on all the possible data
    points.

SEE ALSO

      * YAML.pm

      * YAML::Syck

      * YAML::Tiny

      * CPAN::Meta::YAML

AUTHOR

    Ingy döt Net <ingy@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

    Copyright 2007-2016. Ingy döt Net.

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself.

    See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html