[rspec-users] Cucumber - Ambiguous steps

aslak hellesoy
Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:13:25 -0000

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Joseph Wilk <lists at ruby-forum.com>
wrote:
> David Chelimsky wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Joseph Wilk <lists at
ruby-forum.com>
>> wrote:
>>> You can still use non-regular expression steps in Cucumber:
>>>
>>> I''ve been unable to think of a good example where I would
want only a
>>> partial match of a step. Throwing away the unmatched characters.
Does
>>> anyone have good examples where they would?
>>
>> I think you''ve got this right and exposed a bug. Wanna report
it to
>> lighthouse and/or fix it?
>
> Sure I''ll report it and write a patch.
>

Hold on.

If you want the regexp to match until the end of the string, why don''t
you just stick a $ at the end of the Regexp?

That''s how regexen work. I don''t see why they should work any
differently when used in Cucumber.

Aslak

> Thanks,
> Joseph Wilk
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>
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