How do I add an element to a list in Groovy?

Question

Let's say I've got a list, like this...

def myList = ["first", 2, "third", 4.0]; 

How do I add (push) an element to the end of it? I come from a PHP background, and there I would just do something like $myList[] = "fifth";. What's the equivalent of that in Groovy?

Answer 1

From the documentation:

We can add to a list in many ways:

assert [1,2] + 3 + [4,5] + 6 == [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] assert [1,2].plus(3).plus([4,5]).plus(6) == [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]     //equivalent method for + def a= [1,2,3]; a += 4; a += [5,6]; assert a == [1,2,3,4,5,6] assert [1, *[222, 333], 456] == [1, 222, 333, 456] assert [ *[1,2,3] ] == [1,2,3] assert [ 1, [2,3,[4,5],6], 7, [8,9] ].flatten() == [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]  def list= [1,2] list.add(3) //alternative method name list.addAll([5,4]) //alternative method name assert list == [1,2,3,5,4]  list= [1,2] list.add(1,3) //add 3 just before index 1 assert list == [1,3,2] list.addAll(2,[5,4]) //add [5,4] just before index 2 assert list == [1,3,5,4,2]  list = ['a', 'b', 'z', 'e', 'u', 'v', 'g'] list[8] = 'x' assert list == ['a', 'b', 'z', 'e', 'u', 'v', 'g', null, 'x'] 

You can also do:

def myNewList = myList << "fifth"