How do I break a string in YAML over multiple lines?

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In YAML, I have a string that's very long. I want to keep this within the 80-column (or so) view of my editor, so I'd like to break the string. What's the syntax for this?

In other words, I have this:

Key: 'this is my very very very very very very long string'

and I'd like to have this (or something to this effect):

Key: 'this is my very very very ' +
     'long string'

I'd like to use quotes as above, so I don't need to escape anything within the string.

newline syntax yaml string
10 Answers

Use

 <br> tag

instead of

 \n
user_11376240

None of the above solutions worked for me, in a YAML file within a Jekyll project. After trying many options, I realized that an HTML injection with <br> might do as well, since in the end everything is rendered to HTML:

name: | In a village of La Mancha <br> whose name I don't <br> want to remember.

At least it works for me. No idea on the problems associated to this approach.

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