YAML becomes corrupted if multiline text starts with indentation

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Open LucianBuzzo opened 6 years ago

LucianBuzzo commented 6 years ago

LucianBuzzo commented 6 years ago

From my investigations I've found that js-yaml safely handles leading spaces in multiline strings.

jsyaml.safeDump({ s: "       \ntest"})

yields

s: |2-

  test

Which correctly handles the indentation using the number hinting.

I'm not sure how the malformed yaml was inserted in the first place though