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Groovy took another leap ahead in the methodology of defining Strings by providing us with “dollar-slashy” strings which further minimized the need of escaping any special character as compared to simple “slashy” Strings.<\/p>\n
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In the Groovy ver:1.8+ you can define Strings as follows:
\n[java]
\n\/\/A dollar-slashy string
\nString message = $\/Hi! I am Kushal Likhi!\/$<\/p>\n
println message
\n\/\/Output: Hi! I am Kushal Likhi!
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In the above example we saw that string is defined by using a dollar-Slash combination. The biggest advantage of this combination is that we don’t even have to escape slashes(“\/”), which results in a cleaner better code.<\/strong> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dollar-slashy strings can be best used with regular expressions as it will enable us to write much cleaner regular expressions.<\/strong> \/\/Now using dollar slashy Strings we can implement the same functionality by: \/\/You can see that we have a much CLEANER RegEx using dollar slashy strings. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hope it helps! Hi, Groovy took another leap ahead in the methodology of defining Strings by providing us with “dollar-slashy” strings which further minimized the need of escaping any special character as compared to simple “slashy” Strings. In the Groovy ver:1.8+ you can define Strings as follows: [java] \/\/A dollar-slashy string String message = $\/Hi! I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-8525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grails","tag-groovy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
\nAn example of regular expression to find the protocol of the URL.
\n[java]
\n\/\/Using simple slashy strings
\nString protocol = "http:\/\/www.intelligrape.com".find(\/([^\\\/]+):\\\/\\\/\/){it[1]}
\nassert protocol == "http" \/\/will be true<\/p>\n
\nString protocol = "http:\/\/www.intelligrape.com".find($\/([^\/]+):\/\/\/$){it[1]}
\nassert protocol == "http" \/\/will be true<\/p>\n
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\nKushal Likhi<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"