Groovy syntax for regular expression matching

Question

What is the Groovy equivalent of the following Perl code?

my $txt = \"abc : groovy : def\";
if ($txt =~ / : (.+?) : /) {
  my $match = $1;
  print \"MATCH=$m         


        

Answer 1

This is my best understanding of how to do this using Groovy syntax (but see lfaraone's response too):

import java.util.regex.Matcher

def txt = 'abc : groovy : def'
if (txt =~ ~/ : (.+?) : /) {
    def match = Matcher.lastMatcher[0][1]
    println "MATCH=$match"
}