My humble apologies for wasting your time. How silly of me not to see that the answer was contained in my own question! I of course didn't mean the message was nonsense. I meant the nonsense was in my behavior. I foolishly thought there might be some list of examples like the Perl data structures cookbook, but for YAML, that my poor searching abilities hadn't uncovered. And that next time someone searched for YAML in this site, they'd be happy to find this node. I'll do penance for my presumption.

I'm sorry I wasn't more specific. My original, very trivial problem was to have a list of days, with for each day a team of people, and a head of a team.

By trial and error, I found this: 

days:
 -
  date: 2005-06-01
  team:
   - Jack
   - Jill
   - Joe
  boss: Clara
 -
  date: 2005-06-02
  team:
    - Harry
    - Hillary
    - Howie
  boss: Victoria

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It does the trick, producing an array of hashes of arrays. Now (does my greed know no bounds?) I'm wondering if there's a more concise way, so that team members could be on the same line. At the same time I feel shame to even mention it, because I'm sure the answer is in the fine documentation, and it's just my poor eyes that don't see it! But perhaps wisdom can be achieved through shame.

In reply to Re^2: YAML newbie help by Tortue
in thread YAML newbie help by Tortue

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