Groovy string cleanup.

StringHelpers.groovy

/**
 * Clean spaces and extraneous characters from a text string.
 * 
 * @params source The source string.
 * 
 * @return The cleaned version of the input string.
 * 
 */
static def cleanString(String source) {

        if ( source && source.length() > 0 ) {
            def wordList = source.split("\\s+")

            [",", ""].each() { i ->
                wordList -= i
            }

            wordList.join(" ")
        }

    }