multi line string yaml code example
Example 1: yaml multiline string
# Use > most of the time: interior line breaks are stripped out, although you get one at the end:
key: >
Your long
string here.
# Use | if you want those linebreaks to be preserved as \n (for instance, embedded markdown with paragraphs).
key: |
### Heading
* Bullet
* Points
# Use >- or |- instead if you don't want a linebreak appended at the end.
# Use "..." if you need to split lines in the middle of words or want to literally type linebreaks as \n:
key: "Antidisestab\
lishmentarianism.\n\nGet on it."
Example 2: yaml multiline string
Key: >
This is a very long sentence
that spans several lines in the YAML
but which will be rendered as a string
with only a single carriage return appended to the end.
# You can use the "block chomping indicator" to eliminate the trailing line break, as follows:
Key: >-
This is a very long sentence
that spans several lines in the YAML
but which will be rendered as a string
with NO carriage returns.