Groovy: List: any: Check whether any one element matches to given criteria

Groovy provides ‘any’ method, it returns true if any element in the collection matches to given criteria, else false.

public boolean any(Closure predicate)

Return true, if any element matches to given criteria, else false.

HelloWorld.groovy

numbers = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
oddNumbers = [1, 3, 5, 7]

isAnyEvenNumber1 = numbers.any { it % 2 == 0}
isAnyEvenNumber2 = oddNumbers.any { it % 2 == 0}

println "Is numbers contain any even numbers : $isAnyEvenNumber1"
println "Is oddNumbers contain any even numbers : $isAnyEvenNumber2"

Output

Is numbers contain any even numbers : true

Is oddNumbers contain any even numbers : false

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