Keep float decimal point when output is JSON

[V02460]

How can I keep the decimal point for floats when converting YAML to JSON? The default behavior converts them to integers, which is not what I want.

Example in which the decimal point is removed:

$ echo "3.0" | yq -o json '.'
3

[cliff-wakefield-superloop]

Did you ever find an answer for this?

[mikefarah]

Best way would be to convert the decimal to a string...

e.g. this will convert all floats to strings:

echo "3.0" | ./yq  '(.. | select(tag == "!!float")) tag="!!str"' -oj

Note that jq does the same thing with 3.0:

echo '{"x": 3.0}' | jq
{
  "x": 3
}
# as a string
echo '{"x": "3.0"}' | jq
{
  "x": "3.0"
}