strip indent in groovy multiline strings

Question

Unfortunately stripIndent on a multiline string does not work. Side note: My IDE code style preferences allow only space indentation (tabs will be replaced by spaces). But i

Answer 1

As @stefanglase mentioned I use .stripIndent() combined with .trim():

String mystring = """
     My multiline
          string
     contains blank lines
           at the beginning and the end
"""
print "*${mystring.stripIndent()}*"
print "*${mystring.stripIndent().trim()}*"


>*
>My multiline
>     string
>contains blank lines
>      at the beginning and the end
>*
>*My multiline
>     string
>contains blank lines
>      at the beginning and the end*