Regex and Pattern Matching in Scala
- by Bruce Ferguson
I am not strong in regex, and pretty new to Scala. I would like to be able to find a match between the first letter of a word, and one of the letters in a group such as "ABC". In pseudocode, this might look something like:
case Process(word) =>
word.firstLetter match {
case([a-c][A-C]) =>
case _ =>
}
}
but I don't know how to grab the first letter in Scala instead of Java, how to express the regular expression properly, nor if it's possible to do this within a case class. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Bruce
