The only similarity between these two methods is that they use the pattern class but the string class imports any libraries it needs for those methods. I've even tried importing those libraries ...

The String.split methods can be very convenient for easily splitting a provided String based on a provided regular expression String. The only trick is figuring out a regular expression token to use ...

For the past several months, I have been somewhat of a Groovy evangelist and have been touting the virtues of Groovy to Java developer colleagues. Recently, a colleague asked if Groovy has a slick way ...