Array of strings in groovy

Question

In ruby, there is a indiom to create a array of strings like this:

names = %w( lucas Fred Mary )

Is there something like that in groovy?

Answer 1

Most of the time you would create a list in groovy rather than an array. You could do it like this:

names = ["lucas", "Fred", "Mary"]

Alternately, if you did not want to quote everything like you did in the ruby example, you could do this:

names = "lucas Fred Mary".split()

Answer 2

If you really want to create an array rather than a list use either

String[] names = ["lucas", "Fred", "Mary"]

or

def names = ["lucas", "Fred", "Mary"].toArray()