Groovy: isn't there a stringToMap out of the box?

Question

as a tcl developer starting with groovy, I am a little bit surprised about the list and map support in groovy. Maybe I am missing something here.

I am used to conver

Answer 1

If you don't want to use evaluate(), do instead:

def stringMap = "['a':2,'b':4]"
stringMap = stringMap.replaceAll('\\[|\\]','')
def newMap = [:]
stringMap.tokenize(',').each {
kvTuple = it.tokenize(':')
newMap[kvTuple[0]] = kvTuple[1]
}
println newMap