How to turn off --pretty?

[smprather]

I'm not even sure exactly what --pretty does. I have no way to compare because there is no --no-pretty. If you make a flag default=true, you have to have an off switch. Did I miss something?

Specifically, I'm trying to query a key with a string value. I would like to get the raw value (like jq -r), not the 'value' with quotes which I'll have to post-strip. Not a big deal, but not as clean as it could be.

Workaround is to use -w yaml. Let me know if this is enhancement issue worthy.

Thanks for writing one *q to rule them all! Much needed!
--Myles

[TomWright]

--pretty allows you to turn on/off pretty printing.

JSON with pretty print (default):

{
  "name": "Tom"
}

JSON with pretty print off:

{"name":"Tom"}

Usage is --pretty=true/false and is documented here: https://daseldocs.tomwright.me/commands/select#flags-args

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If you want to get a plain value without any encoding, you can use -w - to use the "plain" formatter, which under the hood is just go's fmt.Sprint. E.g. https://dasel.tomwright.me/s/0a257c1a-396e-4e75-820f-f61211695024

[smprather]

Thanks for the detailed answer @TomWright. I was going from the dasel -h message. I'm more familiar with the --no-foo way of setting flags to false. Though pretty is not what I want here. -w - is. Maybe you could add - as a formatting option to the -h help? To be honest, if it's not in -h, I'm likely not to look further (though I did search the Q&A before posting). Thanks again for the quick help!

[TomWright]

I think that's reasonable. I think the --help needs a bit of a refresher for sure