how to get a plain output

[electriquo]

Dasel v1 supports the --plain option. Is there any equivalent support in Dasel v2?

$ dasel --version
dasel version 2.0.2

$ echo '{"tags": ["foo","bar"]}' | dasel -r json '.tags.all()'
"foo"
"bar"

How can I make Dasel return the values without the quotes? For instance, if --plain was supported in Dasel v2

$ echo '{"tags": ["foo","bar"]}' | dasel -r json '.tags.all()' --plain
foo
bar

Tried to utilize the csv output to get the plain values, but got an error

$ echo '{"tags": ["foo","bar"]}' | dasel -r json '.tags.all()' -w csv
Error: CSVParser.toBytes cannot handle type string

Switching to yml output seems to do well for some values (but observe the inconsistency in the output)

$ echo '{"tags": ["foo","bar", "1.1", "*"]}' | dasel -r json '.tags.all()' -w yml
foo
bar
"1.1"
'*'

If there is a better selector for getting all values in plain form, please enlighten me :)

[TomWright]

That should be -w -. Looks like I missed it from the docs... Sorry about that

Your CSV problem is because of the all() selector.

You're passing a list of strings with no context to the csv parser.
The csv parser expects an array. You can achieve this by using merge or removing all.

[electriquo]

Thank you.
Would you like me to open a pull-request for the docs?

[TomWright]

No problem.

That's OK I can get it done tomorrow 👍

[TomWright]

I've made a small update here: https://daseldocs.tomwright.me/supported-file-formats