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List:       groovy-user
Subject:    Re: [groovy-user] Switch and Regex
From:       Jim White <jim () pagesmiths ! com>
Date:       2009-03-31 4:23:31
Message-ID: 49D19AC3.80006 () pagesmiths ! com
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switch ('abc123') {
    case ~/.{10}/ : println 10 ; break
    case ~/[:alpha:]+/ : println 'Word' ; break
    case ~/\w{3}\d{3}/ : println 'AlphaNum' ; break
    default : println 'None of the above.'
}

The test is the same as ==~ (whole string match).

Jim

Paul Bowler wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I need to parse incoming text messages and route the parameters to 
> various services (in Grails) based upon regex patterns.
> 
> Is the a standard Groovy way of combining a switch statement with Regex 
> patterns?
> 
> Ideally I want to traverse through a list of Regex's until a match is 
> found, extract the parameters from the String and then call a service 
> with those parameters.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul.
> 






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