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The Cucumber for Java Book
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The Cucumber for Java Book

by Seb Rose, Matt Wynne, Aslak Hellesoy
February 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
338 pages
8h 16m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Capturing Arguments

You’ll notice that in the step we’ve been using as an example, we’ve talked about the sum of $100 the whole time. What if we had another scenario where we needed to deposit a different amount of money into the account? Would we need another step definition, like this?

 
@Given(​"I have deposited \\$100 in my Account"​)
 
public​ ​void​ iHaveDeposited$100InMyAccount() {
 
// TODO: code goes here
 
}
 
 
@Given(​"I have deposited \\$250 in my Account"​)
 
public​ ​void​ iHaveDeposited$250InMyAccount() {
 
// TODO: code goes here
 
}

Happily, we don’t. This is where the flexibility of regular expressions comes into play. We can use two of regular expressions’ most useful features here to capture any dollar amount as an argument ...

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