[GROOVY-7290] Shell Does Not Accept Triple Double Quote

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.2
• Component/s: Groovysh
• Assignee: Cédric Champeau
• Reporter: Stephen Mallette
• Created: 05/Feb/15 14:20
• Updated: 21/Mar/15 07:11
• Resolved: 23/Feb/15 06:57

Description

A string defined via the triple double quote (not assigned to a variable) in the groovysh generates an error:

$ bin/groovysh
Groovy Shell (2.4.0, JVM: 1.8.0_31)
Type ':help' or ':h' for help.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
groovy:000> "test"
===> test
groovy:000> 'test'
===> test
groovy:000> """test"""
assert name
       |
       ""
        at java_lang_Runnable$run.call (Unknown Source)
groovy:000> """test

The above was possible in previous versions. My guess is that this problem introduced itself given the new method for parsing code lines given to groovysh (but i'm not 100% sure):

https://github.com/groovy/groovy-core/blob/GROOVY_2_4_X/subprojects/groovy-groovysh/src/main/groovy/org/codehaus/groovy/tools/shell/util/CommandArgumentParser.groovy