ReplaceEmptyValues

Replace empty values with ${EMPTY} variable.

Formatter configuration

ReplaceEmptyValues is included in the default formatters, but it can be also run separately with:

robocop format --select ReplaceEmptyValues

You can also disable ReplaceEmptyValues:

robocop format --configure ReplaceEmptyValues.enabled=False

Empty variables, lists or elements in the list can be defined in a way that omits the value. To be more explicit, this transformer replace such values with ${EMPTY} variables:

Before

*** Variables ***
${EMPTY_VALUE}
@{EMPTY_LIST}
&{EMPTY_DICT}
@{LIST_WITH_EMPTY}
...    value
...
...    value3

After

*** Variables ***
${EMPTY_VALUE}    ${EMPTY}
@{EMPTY_LIST}     @{EMPTY}
&{EMPTY_DICT}     &{EMPTY}
@{LIST_WITH_EMPTY}
...    value
...    ${EMPTY}
...    value3

Skip formatting

It is possible to use the following arguments to skip formatting of the code:

• Skip sections