Parse Yaml Files in C++

Read a YAML file using a C script

The second answer to this question has a little bit better example of using the library to parse yaml file into something more useful.

Read a YAML file into C#?

First problem is you are reading filename itself as yaml document, not file contents. Use StreamReader instead of StringReader:

using (var reader = new StreamReader(filepath)) {
    // Load the stream
    var yaml = new YamlStream();
    yaml.Load(reader);
    // the rest
}

Then, YAML 1.0 is VERY old, so it seems parser does not understand %YAML: 1.0 directive (in later versions the ":" was removed from this directive). So remove it and "---" (not needed). Instead of removing you can change it to %YAML 1.1 (no ":", version 1.1, 1.0 is rejected by parser).

Then, intendation is important. This version (note spaces after ":" in "id" and "corners") will be parsed with your code without issues:

%YAML 1.1
---
aruco_bc_dict: ARUCO
aruco_bc_nmarkers: 24
aruco_bc_mInfoType: 1
aruco_bc_markers:
   - { id: 0, corners: [ [ -1.2928584814071655e+00, 8.1286805868148804e-01,
       -1.6458697617053986e-01 ], [ -1.1746160984039307e+00,
       8.1223398447036743e-01, -1.4413379132747650e-01 ], [
       -1.1754947900772095e+00, 6.9224494695663452e-01,
       -1.4277370274066925e-01 ], [ -1.2937371730804443e+00,
       6.9287902116775513e-01, -1.6322688758373260e-01 ] ] }
   - { id: 1, corners: [ [ -7.9834830760955811e-01, 8.1106305122375488e-01,
       -9.9434338510036469e-02 ], [ -6.7920655012130737e-01,
       8.1078404188156128e-01, -8.5110619664192200e-02 ], [
       -6.7947661876678467e-01, 6.9078433513641357e-01,
       -8.5201270878314972e-02 ], [ -7.9861837625503540e-01,
       6.9106334447860718e-01, -9.9524989724159241e-02 ] ] }
   - { id: 2, corners: [ [ -3.0384334921836853e-01, 8.1034839153289795e-01,
       -3.8991540670394897e-02 ], [ -1.8399941921234131e-01,
       8.1008774042129517e-01, -3.2878942787647247e-02 ], [
       -1.8429389595985413e-01, 6.9008994102478027e-01,
       -3.2222278416156769e-02 ], [ -3.0413782596588135e-01,
       6.9035059213638306e-01, -3.8334876298904419e-02 ] ] }

How to parse a file with yaml-cpp

I guess I underestimated the power of the library. It turns out that doing so solves the problem:

  YAML::Node map = YAML::LoadFile(filename);
  for(YAML::const_iterator it=map.begin(); it!=map.end(); ++it){
    const std::string &key=it->first.as<std::string>();

    Eigen::Vector2f pos;
    YAML::Node attributes = it->second;
    YAML::Node position = attributes["position"];
    for(int i=0; i<2; ++i){
      pos(i) = position[i].as<float>();
    }

    ...
  }

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