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. See similar questions with these tags.

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 …

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, …

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, select the Gradle …

Aug 16, 2012 · In Groovy, null == null gets a true. At runtime, you won't know what happened. In Java, == is comparing two references. This is a cause of big confusion in basic programming, Whether it is …

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.

What is Grails? Grails (previously known as "Groovy on Grails") is a programming framework based on Groovy and inspired by Ruby on Rails (there are differences, but there are lots of similarities too). …

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 …

Apr 28, 2014 · 24 == in Groovy is roughly equivalent to equals(), however, you'll find it's different from Java when comparing different classes with the same value - if the class is Comparable. Groovy also …