yaml example file strings
The YAML file example contains all the components of the YAML file.
The official standard of file extension is .yaml
.
Let’s see a sample yaml document with components syntax.
--- # yaml document beginning
# comment syntax
# basic syntax - key and value separated by colon and space before the value
key: value
# Scalar data types
integerValue: 1 # integer value
floatingValue: 1 # floating vale
stringValue: "456" # string with double quotes
stringValue: 'abc' # string with single quotes
stringValue: wer # string without quotes
booleanValue:true # boolean values - true or false
# Multiline string with literal block syntax -preserved new lines
string1: |
Line1
line2
"line3"
line4
# Multiline strings with folded block syntax - new lines are not preserved, leading and trailing spaces are ignore
string1: >
Line1
line2
"line3"
line4
# Collection sequence data types
# sequence arraylist example
- One
- two
- Three
# another way of sequence syntax example
[one, two , three]
### dictionary
mysqldatabase:
hostname: localhost
port: 3012
username: root
password: root