symfony/symfony — pull request #11843 by xabbuh (2014-09-03 17:59:37+00:00)
Title: [Yaml] improve error when detecting unquoted asterisks

| Q | A
| ------------- | ---
| Bug fix? | yes
| New feature? | no
| BC breaks? | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Tests pass? | yes
| Fixed tickets | #11835
| License | MIT
| Doc PR |

Asterisks in unquoted strings are used in YAML to reference variables. Before Symfony 2.3.19, Symfony 2.4.9 and Symfony 2.5.4, unquoted asterisks in inlined YAML code were treated as regular strings. This was fixed for the inline parser in #11677. However, an unquoted * character now led to an error message like this:

```
PHP Warning: array_key_exists(): The first argument should be either a string or an integer in vendor/symfony/symfony/src/Symfony/Component/Yaml/Inline.php on line 409

[Symfony\Component\Yaml\Exception\ParseException]
Reference "" does not exist at line 171 (near "- { foo: * }").
```