Programming Groovy 2

Other Convenience Methods on Maps

Let’s wrap up our discussion of collections by looking at a few convenience methods of Map.

We saw how the find method is useful for fetching an element that satisfies a given condition. However, instead of getting the element, if we’re simply interested in determining whether any elements in the collection satisfy some condition, we can use the any method.

Let’s continue with the example of languages and authors from ​Iterating Over Map​. We can use the any method to determine whether any language name has a nonalphabetic character: