YAML anchor and alias problem

Ruby
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Hi,
I’m trying to use YAML to load and store a whole bunch of data (with a
lot of repetition). Anchors and aliases seem to be the way froward,
but I am runing into a few problems.

Suppose I have the following YAML document:

anchor: &id001

  • sample1 :
    name: s1
    freq: 0.27
  • sample2 :
    name: s2
    freq: 0.27
    alias: *id001

held in a string (str). I then load it

x=YAML.load(str)
=> {“anchor”=>[{“name”=>“s1”, “freq”=>0.27, “sample1”=>nil},
{“name”=>“s2”, “freq”=>0.27, “sample2”=>nil}], “alias”=>nil}

Why does my alias always come out as nil. Where do I need to put the
anchor in order that the alias picks up the entire list. This is the
output I desire
=> {“anchor”=>[{“name”=>“s1”, “freq”=>0.27, “sample1”=>nil},
{“name”=>“s2”, “freq”=>0.27, “sample2”=>nil}], “alias”=>
[{“name”=>“s1”, “freq”=>0.27, “sample1”=>nil}, {“name”=>“s2”,
“freq”=>0.27, “sample2”=>nil}]}

Thanks

Steve

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On Dec 5, 4:30 pm, [email protected] wrote:

freq: 0.27

Steve
Belay that - problem found - I didn’t have the indenting right

Steve