downvoted because it's confusing. OP is about groovy and if people scan-read quickly the answers, we might think it's a valid groovy syntax proposed.

In Groovy you also have to be aware that in addition to ==~, alias "Match operator", there is also =~, alias "Find Operator" and ~, alias "Pattern operator". All are explained here.

In groovy, the bitwise operators can be overridden with the leftShift (<<) and rightShift (>>) methods defined on the class. It's idiomatic groovy to use the leftShift method for append …

Dec 8, 2012 · My current work project allows user-provided expressions to be evaluated in specific contexts, as a way for them to extend and influence the workflow. These expressions …

In a GString (groovy string), any valid Groovy expression can be enclosed in the $ {...} including method calls etc. This is detailed in the following page.

May 8, 2013 · I use it all the time. EDIT: Just looking at it they are slightly different--split returns an array while tokenize returns an ArrayList. Virtually the same thing in Groovy, the split has the …

I am trying to invoke Groovy inside Hudson (using groovy plugin) to get some properties for our build. But I am getting this exception: groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such …

Feb 27, 2019 · I have a collection which I process with removeIf {} in Groovy. Inside the block, I have access to some it identifier. What is this and where is it documented?

Sep 6, 2017 · While reading some groovy code of another developer I encountered the following definition: def foo=[:] What does it mean?

Sep 20, 2018 · In an empty folder, run gradle init, Type of project application, Implementation language Groovy, use defaults for the rest. Open folder in Visual Studio Code. In left toolbar, …