assign “it” in each iteration (groovy)

Question

Hey, i try to trim each string item of an list in groovy

list.each() { it = it.trim(); }

But this only works within the closure, in the list th

Answer 1

If you really had to modify the list in place, you could use list.eachWithIndex { item, idx -> list[idx] = item.trim() }.

collect() is way better.