What are the Lexing Errors in Cucumber?

Question

I was trying to run a simple Feature file but i was getting Exception like : Exception in thread "main" cucumber.runtime.CucumberException: Error parsing feature file.

which is Caused by: gherkin.lexer.LexingError: Lexing error

i am trying to parametrized a When statement and got this Exception:

Scenario: Login to Gmail

  Given User is on Gmail login page
  When User enters <userName> and <pwd>
  And Clicks on login button
  Then User should redirect to home page

  scenario outline(tried Examples as well but didn't worked): 
  |userName   | pwd |
  |ravivani10 | abc |

Answer 1

The correct syntax for a scenario outline is to start with the keyword Scenario Outline: and list the examples with the Examples: keyword.

Scenario Outline: Login to Gmail
  Given User is on Gmail login page
  When User enters <userName> and <pwd>
  And Clicks on login button
  Then User should redirect to home page
Examples:
  | userName   | pwd |
  | ravivani10 | abc |