This StackOverflow answer ( alternate link ) is an excellent, readable, all in one place answer to the twin questions of how you quote strings in YAML and how you break them across multiple lines. I learned something new about quoting strings from reading it , and I'm definitely going to want this link for future reference the next time I have something complicated to put in YAML. I'm also probably going to use '...' quoting more now that I know how simple it is to quote any stray 's I want in it.

( Via Laurence Tratt .)