Data
YAML files
A data format designed to be easy for people to read and write, widely used for configuration files.
- Full name
- YAML Ain’t Markup Language
- Made by
- Clark Evans, Ingy döt Net and Oren Ben-Kiki
- Introduced
- 2001
- File extension
- .yaml, .yml
- Best for
- Configuration files
- Opens in
- Any text editor; read by most programming languages
- In FileFlip
- Saves
Good at
- Easy to read
- Supports comments
Not so good at
- Indentation matters
YAML in FileFlip
FileFlip saves YAML files. It doesn’t open them as a source format.
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