Added post about spaces in yaml keys

content/posts/yaml-key-spaces.md

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-title: "YAML keys allow for spaces in them"
-date: 2021-05-11
-draft: false
-tags:
-  - yaml
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-
-While browsing through some of [Frenck's](https://github.com/frenck) [Home Assistant Config](https://github.com/frenck/home-assistant-config) for ideas I came across [this interesting line of YAML](https://github.com/frenck/home-assistant-config/blob/a963e1cb3e2acf7beda2b466b334218ac27ee42f/config/integrations/automation.yaml#L7):
-
-```yaml
----
-# This handles the loading of my automations
-#
-# https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/automation/
-#
-automation: !include ../automations.yaml
-automation split: !include_dir_list ../automations    # <--
-```
-
-I found myself staring at this for a while, followed by searching the [Home Assistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/) documentation website to see if `split` was a special keyword I wasn't aware of.
-
-And then it dawned on me! As all JSON is valid YAML, and JSON keys can be pretty much any string it makes sense that YAML supports it.
-
-The above example converted to JSON using [json2yaml](https://www.json2yaml.com/convert-yaml-to-json) looks like this:
-
-```json
-{
-  "automation": "../automations.yaml",
-  "automation split": "../automations"
-}
-```
-
-Knowing this, I decided to try out a few more variations to see what works...
-
-YAML:
-```yaml
----
-123: Valid
----: also valid
-5.5: yup! this too
-#how about this?: nope, this is treated as a comment
-//: yeah, totally valid
-✨: yep!
-[1]: Works
-[1, 2]: Still works, treated as string
-{another}: This one is interesting
-```
-
-JSON:
-```json
-{
-  "123": "Valid",
-  "---": "also valid",
-  "5.5": "yup! this too",
-  "//": "yeah, totally valid",
-  "✨": "yep!",
-  "[1]": "Works",
-  "[1, 2]": "Still works, treated as string",
-  "{\"another\"=>nil}": "This one is interesting"
-}
-```
-
-Depending on the library used, varying results can be generated. For example, [yamlonline](https://yamlonline.com/) returns the following for the same input:
-
-```json
-{
-	"1": "Works",
-	"123": "Valid",
-	"---": "also valid",
-	"5.5": "yup! this too",
-	"//": "yeah, totally valid",
-	"✨": "yep!",
-	"1,2": "Still works, treated as string",
-	"[object Object]": "This one is interesting"
-}
-```