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, the ==~ operator (aka the "match" operator) is used for regular expression matching. != is just a plain old regular "not equals". So these are very different.

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 …

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?

According to the Groovy docs, the == is just a "clever" equals() as it also takes care of avoiding NullPointerException: Java’s == is actually Groovy’s is() method, and Groovy’s == is a clever …

If I have a string like: s = "This is a simple string 234 something else here as well 4334 and a regular expression like: regex = ~"[0-9]{3}" How can I extract all the words from the string usin...

How to truncate string in groovy? I used: def c = truncate("abscd adfa dasfds ghisgirs fsdfgf", 10) but getting error.

Sep 7, 2016 · What is the code to get the current date and time in groovy? I've looked around and can't find an easy way to do this. Essentially I'm looking for linux equivalent of date I have : …

I prefer this solution because I use traditional java code within a groovy script. I can copy and paste code from my java files in Eclipse to a groovy script without worrying about any …

Sep 9, 2008 · How do I figure out if an array contains an element? I thought there might be something like [1, 2, 3].includes(1) which would evaluate as true.