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Error message "you need to quote the scalar" #1216

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paddelboot opened this issue Mar 25, 2019 · 2 comments
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Error message "you need to quote the scalar" #1216

paddelboot opened this issue Mar 25, 2019 · 2 comments

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Trying to configure my suites and contexts as described here (http://behat.org/en/latest/user_guide/configuration/suites.html), I get the following error in my terminal:

The reserved indicator "%" cannot start a plain scalar; you need to quote the scalar at line 7 (near "paths: [ %paths.base%/features ]").

How do I "quote the scalar", since using actual quotes on the variable placeholder produces the same error?

Thanks.
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I had to quote like this in my behat.yaml file:

'%paths.base%/features'.

It would be helpful to update the documentation. Tags also need quoting: '@tag'.

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stof commented Mar 25, 2019

The doc source is available at https://github.com/Behat/docs

SvenRtbg added a commit to SvenRtbg/docs that referenced this issue Sep 4, 2019
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Add quotes to certain YAML strings
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According to Behat/Behat#1216 the recent YAML parser throws an error when encountering unquotes strings with special characters.
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Behat/Behat#1216 You need to quote the scalar
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Release (#13)
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* Behat/Behat#1216 You need to quote the scalar

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