use strict; use warnings; use YAML qw( LoadFile Dump Load ); use Data::Dump qw( dump ); my $in = " FOO\nBAR BAZ\n"; my $out = Load( Dump( $in ) ); print dump( $in, $out ); ------ output ----- ( " FOO\nBAR BAZ\n", " FOO\nBAR BAZ\n", )