YAML - Scalars and Tags

Scalars in YAML are written in block format using a literal type which is denoted as(|). It denotes line breaks count. In YAML, scalars are written in folded style (>) where each line denotes a folded space which ends with an empty line or more indented line.

New lines are preserved in literals are shown below −

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\//||\/||
// || ||__

The folded newlines are preserved for more indented lines and blank lines as shown below −

>
Sammy Sosa completed another
fine season with great stats.
63 Home Runs
0.288 Batting Average
What a year!

YAML flow scalars include plain styles and quoted styles. The double quoted style includes various escape sequences. Flow scalars can include multiple lines; line breaks are always folded in this structure.

plain:
This unquoted scalar
spans many lines.
quoted: "So does this
quoted scalar.\n"

In YAML, untagged nodes are specified with a specific type of the application. The examples of tags specification generally use seq, map and str types for YAML tag repository. The tags are represented as examples which are mentioned as below −

Integer tags

These tags include integer values in them. They are also called as numeric tags.

canonical: 12345
decimal: +12,345
sexagecimal: 3:25:45
octal: 014
hexadecimal: 0xC

Floating point numbers

These tags include decimal and exponential values. They are also called as exponential tags.

canonical: 1.23015e+3
exponential: 12.3015e+02
sexagecimal: 20:30.15
fixed: 1,230.15
negative infinity: -.inf
not a number: .NaN

Miscellaneous Tags

It includes a variety of integer, floating and string values embedded in them. Hence it is called miscellaneous tags.

null: ~
true: y
false: n
string: '12345'