title: How to make "the" optional in my cucumber BDD Step Definitions?
body: <p>I'd like to match either of the following BDD:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Then the response status should be "200"
  Then response status should be "200"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>I want to make "the" optional</strong>. I want these two rules to map to the SAME step. </p>
  
  <p>Here is my attempt, but it doesn't work:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@Then("^(?:the | )response status should be \"([^\"]*)\"$")
  public void the_response_status_should_be(String arg1) {
      ...
  }
  </code></pre>