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

  1. SYNOPSIS
  2. DESCRIPTION
  3. CONFIGURATION
  4. USING YAML::XS WITH UNICODE
  5. LIBYAML
  6. SEE ALSO
  7. AUTHOR
  8. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
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SYNOPSIS

use YAML::XS;

my $yaml = Dump [ 1..4 ];
my $array = Load $yaml;

DESCRIPTION

Kirill Simonov's libyaml is arguably the best YAML implementation. The C library is written precisely to the YAML 1.1 specification. It was originally bound to Python and was later bound to Ruby.

This module is a Perl XS binding to libyaml which offers Perl the best 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. Only Load and Dump are exported by default.

CONFIGURATION

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.

LIBYAML

You can find out (since v.079) which libyaml version this module was built with:

my $libyaml_version = YAML::XS::LibYAML::libyaml_version();

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

Ingy döt Net [email protected]

Copyright 2007-2024 - 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