My problem is that when I encounter a yml file that contains no info (or
worse yaml designed by someone with a limited grasp of yaml) my program
goes splat.
Any ideas or direction for scanning then skipping bad yaml files.
I have captured the ruby exceptions but I want to just skip the files
before it comes to that
Don't think there is any way to do this. I suppose it might be nice if
there were a syntax check function, but it won't be much different
than actually trying to parse it. And if you are going to use the
result if it parses why would you want to waste time doing so twice?
So catching the error is really the best way to go.
~trans
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On May 18, 9:13 am, Kevin Austin <nitsuani...@comcast.net> wrote:
I am sorting through a heap of yaml files looking for the following
fields.
My problem is that when I encounter a yml file that contains no info (or
worse yaml designed by someone with a limited grasp of yaml) my program
goes splat.
Any ideas or direction for scanning then skipping bad yaml files.
I have captured the ruby exceptions but I want to just skip the files
before it comes to that
Don't think there is any way to do this. I suppose it might be nice if
there were a syntax check function, but it won't be much different
than actually trying to parse it. And if you are going to use the
result if it parses why would you want to waste time doing so twice?
So catching the error is really the best way to go.
~trans
That's what I thought was the case.
Now for my next question
after I capture my error
`sort': comparison of String with nil failed (ArgumentError)
how can I return to my code with my next yaml file?
Thomas Sawyer wrote:
> Don't think there is any way to do this. I suppose it might be nice if
> there were a syntax check function, but it won't be much different
> than actually trying to parse it. And if you are going to use the
> result if it parses why would you want to waste time doing so twice?
> So catching the error is really the best way to go.
> ~trans
That's what I thought was the case.
Now for my next question
after I capture my error
`sort': comparison of String with nil failed (ArgumentError)
how can I return to my code with my next yaml file?
aka
rescue
do crap
end
probably 'next' would do if your looping over files. Also there is
'retry'.