Facing problem using Groovy a/autosplit command line switch with custom delimiter

[Robin Sharma]

Howdy,

I'm not able to pass a custom delimiter to the autosplit Groovy command line switch. I've tried the following but they all result in errors:

// Fails
groovy -a':' -ne "if(!(split[0] =~ /^#/))println split[0]" passwd.txt
Unrecognized option: -a':'
error: jvm creation failed with code -1: unknown error

// Fails
groovy -a ':' -ne "if(!(split[0] =~ /^#/))println split[0]" passwd.txt
Unrecognized option: -ne
error: jvm creation failed with code -1: unknown error

// Fails
groovy -a":" -ne "if(!(split[0] =~ /^#/))println split[0]" passwd.txt
Unrecognized option: -a:
error: jvm creation failed with code -1: unknown error

// Fails
groovy --autosplit':' -ne "if(!(split[0] =~ /^#/))println split[0]" passwd.txt
Unrecognized option: --autosplit':'
error: jvm creation failed with code -1: unknown error

Only the default usage works:

// Works!
groovy -a -ne "if(!(split[0] =~ /^#/))println split[0]" passwd.txt

Environment details:
Groovy: 1.7.0
JVM: 1.5.0_14
OS: Win XP Pro 2002 SP3

What could be the problem here?

Thanks,
-DW

[Christophe Verré]

groovy -a : -ne "if(!(split[0] =~ /^#/))println split[0]" passwd.txt  

[Robin Sharma]

Christophe Verré wrote:

groovy -a : -ne "if(!(split[0] =~ /^#/))println split[0]" passwd.txt  

groovy -a : -ne "if(!(split[0] =~ /^#/))println split[0]" passwd.txt
Unrecognized option: -ne
error: jvm creation failed with code -1: unknown error

Still not working

[Christophe Verré]

Mmmm... Sorry. It worked here with Groovy Version: 1.7.0 JVM: 1.5.0_07, WinXP.
Can you also try :

groovy -a ":" -ne "if(!(split[0] =~ /^#/))println split[0]" passwd.txt

[Christophe Verré]

Just in case, can you also try "groovy -v" and make sure you're using version 1.7 ?

[Robin Sharma]

Christophe Verré wrote:Mmmm... Sorry. It worked here with Groovy Version: 1.7.0 JVM: 1.5.0_07, WinXP.
Can you also try :

groovy -a ":" -ne "if(!(split[0] =~ /^#/))println split[0]" passwd.txt

Nope, I still get the same error.

Christophe Verré wrote:Just in case, can you also try "groovy -v" and make sure you're using version 1.7 ?

Chris, I am running Groovy 1.7.0 with JDK 1.5 b14 on Win XP Pro 2002 SP3.