[GROOVY-305] single character strings should be coerced to characters if it helps

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-beta-5
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-beta-10
• Assignee: Jochen Theodorou
• Reporter: Sam Pullara
• Created: 20/Mar/04 04:19
• Updated: 20/Feb/05 11:44
• Resolved: 20/Feb/05 11:44

Description

"sam".replace('s', 'j')

=>

Exception in thread "main" groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No such method: replace for class: java.lang.String with arguments: [s, j]
at groovy.lang.MetaClass.invokeMethod(MetaClass.java:271)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.Invoker.invokeMethod(Invoker.java:130)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper.invokeMethod(InvokerHelper.java:103)
at replacetest.run(replacetest.groovy)