Re: [Rails] Programmatic way to find the bad spot in a YAML file?

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TRANS wrote:

> Looks like it's interpreting a field that looks like a date but isn't?
> With Syck I believe any plain scalar of the form 9999-99-99 is going
> to be made a date --or at least try to be. In your case it fails.
>
> To fix, make sure any entries like this are in quotes.

That's the fix for the inner problem.

The outer problem is fault tolerance. Our programs can only be as 
user-friendly and fault-tolerant as their libraries. The lower the library, 
the more tolerance. I can't ask my customers to enter all their data in YAML 
until I can highlight the line and column of their errors for them.

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