cheatsheets/yaml.md

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---
title: Yaml
category: Markup
prism_languages: [yaml]
---
### Dictionaries and lists
```yaml
# comments start with "#"
# dictionary are written like "key: value"
name: Martin D'vloper
languages:
perl: Elite
python: Elite
pascal: Lame
# list items beginn with a "- "
foods:
- Apple
- Orange
- Strawberry
- Mango
# booleans are lower case
employed: true
```
### Multiline strings
```yaml
# Literal Block Scalar
Multiline: |
exactly as you see
will appear these three
lines of poetry
```
```yaml
# Folded Block Scalar
Multiline: <
this is really a
single line of text
despite appearances
```
### Inheritance
```yaml
parent: &defaults
a: 2
b: 3
child:
<<: *defaults
b: 4
```
### Reference content
```yaml
values: &ref
- These values
- will be reused below
other_values:
<<: *ref
```