Semicolon in yaml file

Rails
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How does one escape a semicolon in their database.yml file?
One of our passwords have an embedded “;” character.

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me wrote:

How does one escape a semicolon in their database.yml file?
One of our passwords have an embedded “;” character.

semi-colons are not reserved words in yaml and therefore don’t need
escaping YAML Reference Card

“text with embedded semi-colons such as ; and ; and even more ;”.to_yaml
=> “— text with embedded semi-colons such as ; and ; and even more
;\n”

hth

ilan

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On Jan 22, 12:41 pm, me [email protected] wrote:

How does one escape a semicolon in their database.yml file?
One of our passwords have an embedded “;” character.

I’ve had trouble with certain characters in db passwords before too,
even characters that weren’t reserved or “special” for yaml. Wrapping
it in quotes seems to do the trick.

–
Justin B.
http://mega.blaix.com