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.

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 advantage …

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 …

Nowadays I hear a lot about "Groovy on Grails" and I want to know more about it: What is Groovy? What is Grails? What kind of applications are built using Groovy on Grails?

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 differences between Java …

The simplest way to install Groovy on Linux/Mac is with SDKMAN. Here's what I suggest: undo everything you've already done install SDKMAN by running curl -s "https://get.sdkman.io" | bash …

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.

From a noob in groovy: I had the same exception, but for different reason. I defined a method later than I wanted to use in the beginning of the code. When I replaced it, it worked.