On 27 January 2017 at 19:15, Les Hartzman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just saw a reference to using the above syntax, specifically as follows:
>
> def (string1, string2) = "part1-part2".tokenize("-")
>
> This assigns string1 "part1" and string2 "part2".
>
> So my main question is what is this referred to as?
It's called multiple assignment.
>
> You can't do:
>
> String (string1, string2) = "part1-part2".tokenize("-")
Well, you couldn't. What if types were different?
But you could do it like this:
def (String string1, String string2) = "part1-part2".tokenize("-")
More on multiple assignments here:
http://groovy-lang.org/semantics.html#_multiple_assignment
Cheers,
Dinko
>
> I did find out that you can do:
>
> String string1
> String string2
> (string1, string2) = "part1-part2".tokenize("-")
>
> Thanks.
>
> Les
>
