Groovy String to Array

Question

I have a string and I just want the string as array.

The String: def string = "[[asd-123, rthg213],[adw45, gdt345],[fsrfs4, sdferg45]]"

The Array I want: def array = [[asd-123, rthg213],[adw45, gdt345],[fsrfs4, sdferg45]]

I have already tried Eval.me, split(). But I did not found a solution. Please help, Thank you!

Answer 1

Using some simple regex replacement, you can turn your toString()-output to a Groovy-compatible list-literal, and then feed it to Eval.me :

def string = "[[asd-123, rthg213],[adw45, gdt345],[fsrfs4, sdferg45]]"
def list = Eval.me string.replaceAll( /\b([\w\d-]+)\b/, '"$1"' )

assert list.class == ArrayList
assert list[ 1 ][ 1 ] == 'gdt345'