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Groovy: a short way to access captured groups after a match test
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regex-capture-match.groovy
import java.util.regex.Matcher as M
static M getM() { M.lastMatcher }
if ("2018-4-7" ==~ /(\d{1,4})-(\d{1,2})-(\d{1,2})/)
println "day ${m[0][3]}, month ${m[0][2]}, year ${m[0][1]}"
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Apparently, GitHub's code highlighting stylesheet does not support Groovy's "as X" extension of import.
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