Defining and Expressing Variables.

You can define a variable to represent any amount of text. The text in a variable is never interpreted as wiki markup. It is always raw literal text.

• You can define a variable like this: !define var {text}
• Or you can define a variable like this !define var (text)
• The reason there are two forms is so that you can include braces or parenthesis in your variables.
• The variable text can span many lines as shown below:

!define myVariable {
This is the
text of my
variable
}  

variable defined: myVariable= this is the text of my variable
You express the value of a variable like this: ${myVariable}. This expression is replaced with the value of the variable.

The value of the variable is:
this is the
text of my
variable
.

If a variable is expressed on a page, but is not found, then its parent pages are searched in order.
If the variable is not found in any ancestor pages, FitNesse will inspect System.properties.

See Variable fitnesse test, Parent Variable fitnesse test and Define Variables in System Properties test

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