In this example I’ll explain closures in Groovy. According to Sabesta’s nice book Concepts of Programming Languages, defining a closure is a simple matter: “a closure is a subprogram and the referencing environment where it was defined.” But explaining it is not that simple. Sabesta explains the closure as a subprogram that can be assigned to a variable or passed to ...

In this example I will show you how to use regular expressions in Groovy. 1. Groovy and Regular Expressions Groovy is one of the most commonly used JVM languages and regular expressions (or simply regex) as a powerful technique to search and manipulate texts have been around us for more than a half century. As most of the languages Java ...