[GROOVY-7240] Unable to start dollar slashy strings with an escaped dollar

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.6, 1.8.9, 2.3.9
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.1
• Environment: Ubuntu via apt (1.8.6); Built-In with Jenkins on Ubuntu (1.8.9); Ubuntu via GVM (2.3.9)
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Martin Kemp
• Created: 08/Jan/15 10:18
• Updated: 23/Feb/15 01:12
• Resolved: 09/Jan/15 03:44

Description

If a dollar slashy string starts with an escaped dollar e.g.

println($/$$VAR='Hello World'/$)

You'll receive the exception:

Caught: groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: VAR for class: ...

The only way round this is to add a space to separate the first $ from the slash.

println($/ $$VAR='Hello World'/$)