In plaint text files | alone should be considered empty line in pipe-separated format

[boakley]

In pipe-separated files, if I have a single pipe in a Settings table I get the error "Non-existing setting '|'". I think instead, robot should just ignore the line.

Run this test suite to get the error:

*** Settings ***
| Suite Setup | Log | In suite setup...
|

*** Test Cases ***
| Hello
| | log | hello, world

I would like to be able to have (mostly-)blank lines in settings tables, but robot throws the error "Non-existing setting '|'

The error goes away if I leave the line completely blank, but I would like to have the option of keeping the vertical pipe there, because I think it makes the test easier to read. In this contrived example it doesn't really matter, but in real world tests I like to separate my libraries and resource files from other settings, and the vertical bar makes it all visually appear as a single table rather than two tables separated by a blank line, eg:

*** Settings ***
| Resource | ...
| Resource | ...
| Library  | ...
| Library  | ...
| Library  | ...
| 
| Suite Setup | ...
| Suite Teardown | ...

[pekkaklarck]

Fair enough. You get similar problems also if using pipes alone elsewhere than in the setting table.