plugin.xml

<plugin name='string-utils' version='1.0.0' grailsVersion='1.0.3 &gt; *'>
  <author>John Allison</author>
  <authorEmail>jja@sinequanon.net</authorEmail>
  <title>Additional utility methods for String</title>
  <description>Adds some utility methods for String

excerpt(length)
 Returns a string no longer than length, with "..." appended if the original string was longer.
 Breaks the string at the last non-letter so the excerpt is readable.
 If length &lt; 3 then "..." is not appended.

excerpt() calls excerpt(255)

chop()
 Returns a new string that has had the last character removed from the given string.
 Like perl's chop()

append(string,times)
 Returns a string consisting of the original string, appended by a new string the specified number of times.
 e.g. "foo".append("bar",2) == "foobarbar"

append(string)
 calls append(string,1) and is like StringBuilder.append()

isBlank()
 Returns a boolean indicating whether the trimmed version of the original string has 0 length

isNotBlank()
 Returns a boolean indicating whether the trimmed version of the original string has length &gt; 0

</description>
  <documentation>https://github.com/jja/stringutils/blob/master/README</documentation>
  <resources>
    <resource>DataSource</resource>
    <resource>UrlMappings</resource>
  </resources>
  <dependencies />
  <behavior />
</plugin>