[Rivet] colon character in info file

Andy Buckley andy.buckley at cern.ch
Wed May 11 10:39:48 BST 2016


Hi Christian,

This is because "A: B" is the YAML syntax for a dictionary/map entry. If 
you wrap the whole thing in quotes, e.g. "A: B" then it's treated as a 
string.

I fix these things before Rivet releases, since they make the 
manual/HTML building fail ;-)

Andy


On 11/05/16 10:26, Christian Gütschow wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> occasionally, I put a "NB: …" into the description of the info file, but
> it was just pointed out to me that e.g. using --show-analysis
> ATLAS_2015_I1390114, it complains about the NB: comment in the
> description, probably because the colon character is reserved for
> parsing the .info file? Is that a bug or a feature? :-)
>
> I guess I could replace this with "NB -- …" in the future if that’s better?
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
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