FYI, you can enable escaping backlash by the following code def ste = new SimpleTemplateEngine() ste.setEscapeBackslash(true)
I encountered the same issue and fixed the issue in groovy 2.5+ some months ago. Cheers, Daniel.Sun ----- Apache Groovy committer Blog: http://blog.sunlan.me Twitter: @daniel_sun -- Sent from: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Groovy-Users-f329450.html