manual.yml: Clarify how to specify keys with ":" and special chars.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
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tal@whatexit.org authored and Nicolas Williams committed 2015-04-16 11:09:49 -05:00
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to the last element, -2 referring to the next to last element,
and so on.
The `.foo` syntax only works for simply keys i.e. keys that
are all alphanumeric characters. `.[<string>]` works with
keys that contain special charactors such as colons and dots.
For example `.["foo::bar"]` and `.["foo.bar"]` work while
`.foo::bar` and `.foo.bar` would not.
The `?` "operator" can also be used with the slice operator,
as in `.[10:15]?`, which outputs values where the inputs are
slice-able.