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 actions on strings, …

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 the usual …

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 …

Aug 16, 2012 · Groovy has also an operator === that can be used for objects equality === is equivalent to o1.is(o2) triple quoted string triple single quoted string class java.lang.String triple double quoted …

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 …

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...

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 …