Need to add a space before ";" (semi-colon)?

[lbrachet]

Hello,

I'm trying to add a DMARC TXT and I always have "unescaped ;".

TEST 1

Input:

_dmarc:
  - type: TXT
    value: 'v=DMARC1; p=quarantine'

Result:

unescaped ; in "v=DMARC1; p=quarantine"

TEST 2

Input:

_dmarc:
  - type: TXT
    value: "v=DMARC1; p=quarantine"

Result:

unescaped ; in "v=DMARC1; p=quarantine"

TEST 3

Input:

_dmarc:
  - type: TXT
    value: "v=DMARC1\; p=quarantine"

Result:

yaml.scanner.ScannerError: while scanning a double-quoted scalar found unknown escape character ';'

TEST 4

Input:

_dmarc:
  - type: TXT
    value: v=DMARC1; p=quarantine

Result:

unescaped ; in "v=DMARC1; p=quarantine"

TEST 5

So I tried with an escaping "" before the ";":

Input:

_dmarc:
  - type: TXT
    value: v=DMARC1\; p=quarantine

Result:

['v=DMARC1\; p=quarantine']> (config)

TEST 6

But there is the "" which is not great. ;)

Input:

_dmarc:
  - type: TXT
    value: v=DMARC1\; p=quarantine

Result:

['v=DMARC1\; p=quarantine']> (config)

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

[ross]

_dmarc:
  - type: TXT
    value: v=DMARC1\; p=quarantine

^ is the correct/simplest way to denote a record with an escaped ; in it. After pushing that up to Route53 I can query the result and get the desired/expected value back:

(env) coho:octodns-route53 ross$ dig +short TXT _dmarc.exxampled.com. @ns-2027.awsdns-61.co.uk.
"v=DMARC1; p=quarantine"

If you for some reason want to quote the string in YAML you'll need to use \\ so that YAML parsing will put a single \ in the resulting value. \ is the YAML string escape character so it takes two of them to get a single literal \.

_dmarc:
  - type: TXT
    value: "v=DMARC1\\; p=quarantine"

[lbrachet]

Thanks Ross, it's good for me!