Setting value to empty string

[mikefarah]

Setting value to empty string

[mikefarah]

Ah ok cool :)

I've got a fix I should have out soon, need to check the len of arguments in the 'inQuotes' declaration

[kenjones-cisco]

After reading through the code:

func parseValue(argument string) interface{} {
	var value, err interface{}
	var inQuotes = argument[0] == '"'
	if !inQuotes {
		value, err = strconv.ParseFloat(argument, 64)
		if err == nil {
			return value
		}
		value, err = strconv.ParseBool(argument)
		if err == nil {
			return value
		}
		return argument
	}
	return argument[1 : len(argument)-1]
}

The unquoted empty string was passed in, as a result that is not understood. By explicitly passing in the quoted empty string, the result seems to work.

The workaround seems to be doing the following:

    yaml write -i project.yml metadata.pretag '""'

The result then look like this:

metadata:
  name: example
  version: 0.4.0
  pretag: ""

The desired state would result in the following:

metadata:
  name: example
  version: 0.4.0
  pretag:

[mikefarah]

Fixed in https://github.com/mikefarah/yaml/releases/tag/1.11