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November 13, 2009

Groovy Goodness: Convert String to Boolean

Groovy adds the toBoolean() method to the String class. If the value of the string is true, 1 or y the result is true, otherwise it is false.

assert "y".toBoolean()
assert 'TRUE'.toBoolean()
assert '  trUe  '.toBoolean()
assert " y".toBoolean()
assert "1".toBoolean()

assert ! 'other'.toBoolean()
assert ! '0'.toBoolean()
assert ! 'no'.toBoolean()
assert ! '  FalSe'.toBoolean()