Escaping {} in Pillar YAML

[Petrus Theron]

How do I escape curly braces, e.g. to render "{word}.com" in Pillar's YAML?

I tried {}{word}.com, ``{``word``}``.com, but neither works.

Best

P.

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Petrus Theron

[Petrus Theron]

Nevermind, got it working by wrapping the terms in single quotes:

my_variable: '{word}.com'

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Petrus Theron

[David Ward]

This doesn't work for me. I tried a back slash and that sort of worked, it didn't error but did create a literally back slash though too.

[David Ward]

Ok the solution is to double quote the whole line. This means using a backslash to escape any double quotes in the line. 

http://yaml.org/spec/current.html#escaping in double quoted style/ 

Hope this helps others.

[Colton Myers]

Thanks for posting your solution, David! Always appreciated!

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