Thanks Brandon, YAML should get some functions to manipulate it..

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Brandon McCaig <bamcc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Brandon McCaig <bamcc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't know if I'd call it easier. I'm not personally familiar with
>> YAML so I only bothered to parse the example that you gave.
>
> Actually looking into YAML it seems much more complicated than this so
> unless you know for sure that the input complexity is simple (and have
> a good technical reason to manually parse it), I would encourage you
> to use a module instead. That said, it seems non-trivial to determine
> how to invert the keys on an undetermined data structure, so it might
> be too much to ask to write this program with an arbitrary YAML
> structure without defining the exact requirements (and justification).
>
> (As a side note, I erroneously removed indentation from the source
> data in my sample program when I pasted it into Vim, but the program
> will work even with the indentation)
>
>
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