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Parsing Gherkin Descriptions

Explore methods to parse Gherkin free-form descriptions in Laravel by detecting reserved keywords and handling indentation levels. Learn to efficiently aggregate description lines, filter blanks, and clean whitespace to improve scenario and feature parsing accuracy.

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Gherkin supports the concept of free-form descriptions, which can be added to features, scenarios, backgrounds, scenario outlines, and rules. These descriptions are indented below the Gherkin construct they belong to, just like anything else, and can contain any content as long as the lines do not start with any Gherkin keyword. The code snippet below provides an example of a Gherkin description:

PHP
Feature: Guess the word
  The word guess game is a turn-based game for two players.
  The Maker makes a word for the Breaker to guess. The game
  is over when the Breaker guesses the Maker's word.

The basic process for parsing ...