Are you sure you’re not comparing Strings to Characters at some point? Going @TypeChecked might reveal if and where that’s happening...
-- Rachel Greenham rac...@merus.eu > On 22 Feb 2023, at 11:58, James McMahon <jsmcmah...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a Groovy list that holds the unicode representation of select foreign > language characters, something like this simplified version: > > def myList = ['\u00E4','\u00D6','\u00F8'] > > I have built myself a Groovy map that is the crosstabulation of characters by > count in an incoming document, so my map looks something like this: > > crossTab = ["a" : "16736", "b" : "192", " ä " : "18"] > > The foreign language characters in this map that are in the set of keys often > have extra whitespace around them, and for certain languages there is a weird > "right to left" thing going on that I don't quite fully understand. > > My objective: iterate through my list, return true if the element from the > list is found as a key in the map, and return the count - the map value for > that key - if the key is found. My problem: my lookup is failing to return > any hits right now. I know that some of these foreign language characters are > in my data. I suspect my lookup is failing because the keys are not clean > representations of the foreign language characters. > > How do I modify my keys using Groovy to trim them of leading and trailing > whitespace? > > Since my element from my list is expressed as unicode, how would I convert > the trimmed key representation to unicode using Groovy? > > Thank you in advance for any help.
