Or, if you don't know all the variable names that might be used you can use
propertyMissing
this.metaClass.propertyMissing = { return '$' + it }
def done = '"Task complete"'
def source = """
mv file_name $HOME
echo $done
"""
On May 3, 2015, at 2:07 PM, Guillaume Laforge <[email protected]> wrote:
> A simple trick could be to have a $HOME string variable in your script whose
> value is... just... $HOME :-)
>
> def $HOME = '$HOME'
>
> def done = "task complete"
>
> def script = '''
> mv file_name $HOME
> echo $done
> '''
>
> 2015-05-03 19:53 GMT+02:00 Paolo Di Tommaso <[email protected]>:
> I think that AST cannot work here because the string has been already parsed.
>
>
> p
>
>
> On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Dinko Srkoč <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3 May 2015 at 18:01, Paolo Di Tommaso <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would need to implement a string literal in which the dollar char is not
> > interpreted as variable placeholder, indeed to use a custom character to
> > interpolate variables.
> >
> > For example I would like define a string like this:
> >
> >
> > def DONE = 'Task completed'
> >
> >
> > def script = /%
> >
> > mv file_name $HOME
> > echo %DONE
> > /%
> >
> >
> >
> > In which the $HOME string is ignored while %DONE is interpolated as a
> > groovy variable.
> >
> > Is there any way to do that ?
>
> Probably not ... although, I imagine it might be possible using AST
> transformations.
>
> On a related note, it would be interesting to have the ability to use
> a different GString implementation, instead of GStringImpl.
>
> Cheers,
> Dinko
>
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Paolo
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
> --
> Guillaume Laforge
> Groovy Project Manager
> Product Ninja & Advocate at Restlet
>
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