YAML::Parser(3)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, meet YAML::Parser — the Generated Reference Parser for YAML 1.2 💖 it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and yes, that's the whole flex.

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🎀 VERSION 🎀

this doc is describing YAML::Parser version 0.0.5. that's the one. no cap. ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

so like, you wanna get a set of event objects? bet:

my @events = YAML::Parser->new->parse($yaml_string)->events;

and if what you actually want is the yaml-test-suite event output string 👑:

my $receiver = PerlYamlReferenceParserTestReceiver->new;
my $output = YAML::Parser->new(receiver => $receiver)
 ->parse($yaml_string)
 ->receiver
 ->output;

it's giving method chaining, it's giving main character energy, we love to see it 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so YAML::Parser is the first 100% YAML 1.2 spec compliant parser for Perl 🎉🏆 literally the moment. not "mostly compliant", not "compliant-ish", we said 100% and we meant it fr fr.

and the way it works? the Perl code is generated directly from the YAML 1.2 specification ✨ so the spec IS the source of truth, periodt.

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💜 SEE 💜

go be nosy, bestie, all the receipts are right here 🫶:

• <https://github.com/yaml/yaml-reference-parser/tree/master#readme>
• <https://github.com/yaml/yaml-grammar/blob/master/yaml-spec-1.2.yaml>
• <https://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2770814>
• <https://github.com/yaml/yaml-test-suite/tree/master/test>

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

shoutout to Ingy döt Net <ingy@cpan.org> — icon behavior, truly 💖

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🍓 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🍓

Copyright 2020-2021. Ingy döt Net.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>

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and that's a wrap, bestie 💅 this page shipped with perl v5.42.0 and it's dated 2025-07-25, so like… go forth and parse some YAML, you absolute legend 🌈✨🦋