[GROOVY-208] new readText() and maybe writeText() methods on File, InputStream, Reader

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-beta-4
• Assignee: Guillaume Sauthier
• Reporter: James Strachan
• Created: 19/Feb/04 10:58
• Updated: 01/Mar/04 18:07
• Resolved: 01/Mar/04 18:07

Description

How about readText()? We've already got this...

file = new File("foo.txt")
List list = file.readLines()

maybe we should have this too

String text = file.readText()

Then you could do something simple like

file = new File("foo.txt")
text = file.readText()
text.replace("foo", "bar")
file.writeText(text)