[GROOVY-5784] Add findResult() to String

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.5
• Component/s: groovy-jdk
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Uri Moszkowicz
• Created: 05/Nov/12 14:39
• Updated: 28/Apr/14 02:12

Description

I find that I'm often looking for a findResult method for String. Collection seems to have one but String does not for some reason. find works well but only if you need to create a string from matches. Example:

line.findResult(~/(\S+) (\d+)/)

{ new MyObject(it[1], it[2]) }

line.findResult(~/(\d+)/)

{ it[1] as Integer }

What do you all think?