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

stripMargin() is to strip leading spaces from lines with margin.

Default margin is |. We can also specify a custom margin.

For example,

def s = """*This 
        *is
            *multiline
"""

println(s.stripMargin("*"))

will result in

This 
is
multiline

The best practice is that we append .trim() in the end to eliminate leading and trailing spaces of the whole string.

For example,

println(s.stripMargin("*").trim())