puzzled by yaml error ..

[Jedrin]

I have some code that uses a yaml file. I moved the code onto a
different server in windows server 2008 or some such.

My code seems to fail here on the other machine:

label_path = File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/' + cfg[:label_config]

dbg 'load ' + label_path

@full_cfg = YAML::load( File.open(label_path))


load C:/inetpub/wwwroot/Larry/labels.yml
C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:148:in `parse': couldn't parse YAML
at line 5
column 7 (Psych::SyntaxError)
from C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:148:in `parse_stream'
from C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:119:in `parse'
from C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:106:in `load'
from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/Larry/parse-lib.rb:419:in `configure'
from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/Larry/parse-documents.rb:55:in `block
in parse'
from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/Larry/parse-documents.rb:48:in `each'
from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/Larry/parse-documents.rb:48:in `parse'
from univ-parse.rb:33:in `<main>'

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so I wrote test program to try to open the same file with yaml:

But this program works fine on the same file on the machine that has
the problem and when I do that, the error does not occur. The error
doesn't happen when I run it on my lap top either regardless of which
program I use. What can I try ? my laptop is ruby 1.9.2p136, the other
machine is 1.9.2.p180


require 'yaml'

cfg_file = ARGV[0]
puts 'open ' + cfg_file
@raw_cfg = YAML::load( File.open(cfg_file))

p @raw_cfg

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C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Larry>ruby yml-test.rb labels.yml
open labels.yml
{"product"=>{"start_label"=>["\\d\\.\\s*product and company identi ..
...
...








C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Larry>ruby yml-test.rb labels.yml
open labels.yml