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Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 00:41:34 +1000
From: Paul King <paulk@asert.com.au>
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Currently you'd need to do something like:

"hello".iterator().count{ "aeiou".contains(it) }

I think it makes sense to add a direct DGM method in this instance.
And yes, I suspect that CharSequence versions of most of the Iterable
DGM methods would be appropriate.

Cheers Paul.

On 23/05/2015 12:13 AM, Peter Ledbrook wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One of the things I really like about Groovy is how strings can be treated as sequences of characters. Unfortunately this seems to break down in some cases. For example, there is no `count()` method that takes a closure. In my case I'm trying to count vowels, but you might want to count upper case letters or anything else like that.
>
> Does it make sense to extend all the Iterable methods and properties to CharSequence as well? Or should developers turn a string into a list, perform the processing and then convert it back? Either way, the current setup seems a bit inconsistent.
>
> Peter
>


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