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Groovy supports regular expressions natively using the ~"..." expression. Plus Groovy supports the =~ (create Matcher) and ==~ (matches regex) operators. e.g.
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The last example can also benefit from the other string literal notation which allows us to avoid having to type all the backslash escaping characters.
Since a Matcher coerces to a boolean by calling its find method, the =~ operator is consistent with the simple use of Perl's =~ operator, when it appears as a predicate (in 'if', 'while', etc.). The "stricter-looking" ==~ operator requires an exact match of the whole subject string.
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