I really like the Groovy extensions to the String class. Today I discoverd the multiply() method. We want to repeat a dash 80 times? Solution:
'-'.multiply(80)
Simple and readable. But it can even be shorter. As John Flinchbaugh mentioned in the comments, the multiply method is nothing more than an overload for the operator *. So we get the same result with the following statement:
'-' * 80
