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Jonathan Ross commented on JBEHAVE-163:
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Unfortunately, if the step preceding the comment ends with a variable, the
pattern matcher gets greedy...
I would also like to be able to use comments between steps, and the only
work-around I have currently is to avoid ending a step annotation with a
variable - this doesn't always lead to natural prose!
Some solutions I can come up with:
1. add a commas or period followed by a new line to the syntax as step
delimiters, e.g.
Given a comma or period after a $variable,
i can put a comment here without it being swallowed by the pattern matcher,
And i can proceed with the scenario.
2. provide regexp support in the step annotations, e.g.:
@Before("Given a step matching a variable at the end, like so: $([^\n]*)")
3. provide another mechanism for distinguishing between single and multi-line
variables
4. add comment prefixes as suggested by the original post
> Support comments in plain-text scenarios
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> Key: JBEHAVE-163
> URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JBEHAVE-163
> Project: JBehave
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Affects Versions: 2.2
> Reporter: Douglas Padian
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.5
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> It would be nice to have the ability to add comments in the plain-test
> scenarios. If we add any comments, the parser thinks they are the
> continuation of the previous line. To have comment support so that all lines
> preceded by # or -- or whatever get ignored, that would be a nice feature.
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