Hi,
you are right that better normalisation of whitespace would be useful.
Feel free to create a JIRA issue with a patch for this.
Not sure what you mean by a global property for backward compatibility.
Cheers
> On 1 Nov 2016, at 22:13, Hank R. <h...@werx.io> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I hoped to use patterns to provide some flexibility to our project managers
> that would allow them to use first or second person, or none at all. For
> example:
>
> When the user clicks the button
> Then you click the button
> Then click the button
>
> I wanted for all of the above to match the same class:
>
> @Step
> @When("{you|the user|} click{s|} the button")
> @Then("{you|the user|} click{s|} the button")
> public void ClickTheButton() {
> }
>
> What I discovered is that leading whitespace is significant, so the above
> would never match "Then click the button" but would match "Then you click the
> button"
>
> I don't see a use case for whitespace being significant and assumed it was
> normalized -- leading and trailing whitespace removed and all other
> whitespace reduced to a single space character.
>
> At this point maybe only a global property would provide backward
> compatibility.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thank you,
> Hank
>
>
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