Wrapping only strings with whitespace in quotes when converting to a properties file

[embee1981]

Hi all

I'm trying achieve wrapping of string values with quotes if they have whitespace when converting to a props file.

I'm using the following:

yq -o=props '(.[] | select(tag == "!!str" and test("\s"))) |= ("\"" + . + "\"")' myfile.yaml

which works with yaml files like:

bob: hello alice
hello: world

producing

bob = "hello alice"
hello = world

I'm doing something wrong however as when I run with something like the following

bob: hello alice
hello: false
blah: 123
goodbye:
  cruel: world
  more:
    nesting: here

It doesn't work and I get one of the following errors, depending on what I leave in the yaml file:
Error: cannot match with !!bool, can only match strings. Hint: Most often you'll want to use '|=' over '=' for this operation
Error: cannot match with !!int, can only match strings. Hint: Most often you'll want to use '|=' over '=' for this operation
Error: cannot match with !!map, can only match strings. Hint: Most often you'll want to use '|=' over '=' for this operation

What's the best way to achieve this?

UPDATE
The following appears to to what I want, assuming there are no tab chars present ;-) :
yq -o=props '(.. | select(tag == "!!str" and . =="* *")) |= ("\"" + . + "\"")' myfile.yaml
I think only wildcards can be used here though and not other regex'y things like \s ?

[mikefarah]

This is a bug in yq - it's evaluating the test operator in the and expression even though the first argument is false (i.e. it's a boolean).

I'll work on a fix, till then you can use the workaround you have, or have multiple selects (and avoid and :/)

[mikefarah]

Fixed in 4.23.1