Best pattern for simulating “continue” in Groovy closure

Question

It seems that Groovy does not support break and continue from within a closure. What is the best way to simulate this?

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Answer 1

Use return to continue and any closure to break.

Example

File content:

1
2
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3
4
5

Groovy code:

new FileReader('myfile.txt').any { line ->
    if (line =~ /-+/)
        return // continue

    println line

    if (line == "3")
        true // break
}

Output:

1
2
3