Groovy trim with trim(), strip(), stripLeading(), stripTrailing(). 10 tested examples on Groovy 5.x with actual output. “Whitespace is the silent bug factory. You can’t see it, your users can’t see it, but your code sure can.” Robert C. Martin, Clean Code Last Updated: March 2026 | Tested on: Groovy 5.x, Java 17+ | Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate | Reading Time: 14 minutes If you have ever spent twenty minutes debugging a string comparison that “should work,” only to discover a ... Read More