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Learning Scala Programming

You're reading from  Learning Scala Programming

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788392822
Pages 426 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Vikash Sharma Vikash Sharma
Profile icon Vikash Sharma

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Getting Started with Scala Programming 2. Building Blocks of Scala 3. Shaping our Scala Program 4. Giving Meaning to Programs with Functions 5. Getting Familiar with Scala Collections 6. Object-Oriented Scala Basics 7. Next Steps in Object-Oriented Scala 8. More on Functions 9. Using Powerful Functional Constructs 10. Advanced Functional Programming 11. Working with Implicits and Exceptions 12. Introduction to Akka 13. Concurrent Programming in Scala 14. Programming with Reactive Extensions 15. Testing in Scala 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

String Interpolators


We've already used String Interpolators, it's hard to avoid using them when they are available to you. Remember when we used them? Yes! When we were learning to create operators on our own:

println(s"Total Amount for order:: ${amountAfterTax(new Amount(firstOrderAmount))}")

This little s here is a String interpolator. While using these, we precede our String with a character named s, and inside double quotes of the String, we can use any variable with a $ and it'll be replaced by its value:

scala> val myAge = s"I completed my $age."
myAge: String = I completed my 25.

This is an example of how we can use interpolators. The s is not the only interpolator existing in Scala. We have a couple more interpolators. We'll go through them one by one.

  • The s interpolator
  • The f interpolator
  • The raw interpolator

The s interpolator

First, we'll look at the s interpolator. We've already seen how we can create a processed String with variables. Now, let's take an example that takes on expressions...

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