Chapter 4. Working with Files in Groovy

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Reading from a file

• Reading a text file line by line

• Processing every word in a text file

• Writing to a file

• Replacing tabs with spaces in a text file

• Filtering a text file's content

• Deleting a file or directory

• Walking through a directory recursively

• Searching for files

• Changing file attributes on Windows

• Reading data from a ZIP file

• Reading an Excel file

• Extracting data from a PDF