simpleyaml.lua

Very simple YAML parser written in Lua.

Features:

• understands a "useful" subset of YAML
• parses correct files
  • line-based parser, each line needs to contain a key
  • almost no error handling
• no dependencies
• single-file

Example

Input:

---

# Example

someExample:
  someKey: Here is some string
  anotherKey: 42
  subExample1:
    foo: bar
  subExample2:
    hello: world

anotherExample:
  thats: it

Output:

{
  anotherExample = {
    thats = "it"
  },
  someExample = {
    anotherKey = "42",
    someKey = "Here is some string",
    subExample1 = {
      foo = "bar"
    },
    subExample2 = {
      hello = "world"
    }
  }
}

Documentation

Example usage:

simpleyaml = require("simpleyaml.lua")
local parsed = simpleyaml.parse_file("path/to/file.yaml")

Functions:

• parse_file(path) Takes a path to a YAML file and returns a table representing the key-value pairs in the file. No type conversions are performed, there are only strings. May return nil in case of error.