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Task•3y ago
Rots

Escaping templating - colon space is special in yaml

# https://taskfile.dev

version: '3'

tasks:
  demo-ok: echo '{{`a:b`}}'
  demo-fail: echo '{{`a: b`}}'
  demo-alt-ok: "echo '{{`a: b`}}'"
# https://taskfile.dev

version: '3'

tasks:
  demo-ok: echo '{{`a:b`}}'
  demo-fail: echo '{{`a: b`}}'
  demo-alt-ok: "echo '{{`a: b`}}'"
Notice the space difference between first and second case causes a failure. The failure seems to happen at parse time, how come yaml parser is confused?
1 Reply
andreynering
andreynering•3y ago
Hi @Rots, sorry for the long time to respond. This is simple an YAML parse issue. Sometimes it key confused when you have special characters like : or others. The solution is simply what you did on your third example: wrap in quotes.

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