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.

• Variable names may contain letters, numbers, and periods; e.g., MYTEST.someVar or user.name
• 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.

There are several pre-defined variables[?] that you can use on your pages.

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