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YAML offers a simple solution though: just quote all one-word text and, more importantly, quote all text you don't manually write into the YAML file.

Also, the main problem is that excel changes your input instead of just misinterpreting it. The difference being, the original will be gone.



You could also start every Excel cell with ' . But it's really convenient not to quote stuff, so that's what everyone does, both in Excel and in YAML.


Exactly. Excel offers the same "simple" solution.


> excel changes your input

That's a feature though. Coincidentally it only happens when you paste the data or if you messed up the generation of the file (didn't escape the column you want to leave untouched).

To me it seems like a case of you're holding it wrong. (which I don't wholeheartedly support)




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