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elm

Reputation: 20405

Scala Map pattern matching

How to do pattern matching on a Map in Scala ?

A (non working) attempt includes,

Map("a"->1, "b"->2, "c"->3) match {
  case Map(a,b,_*) => a
}

which errs with

value Map is not a case class, nor does it have an unapply/unapplySeq member
              case Map(a,b,_*) => a

The error is indicative enough, yet how to enrich Map with an unapply method for pattern matching ?

Many Thanks

Update

Following @Paul's comment, a neater use case may be like this,

Map("a"->1, "b"->2, "c"->3) match {
  case Map("b"->2,_*) => "222"
}

namely, in this case, if map contains key b that maps onto value 2.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 15353

Answers (2)

elm
elm

Reputation: 20405

An approach to enriching Map with an unapplySeq method for pattern matching includes this,

object MapExtractor {
  def unapplySeq[A <% Ordered[A], B <% Ordered[B]]
      (s: Map[A,B]): Option[Seq[(A,B)]] = Some(s.toSeq.sorted) 
}

where the sorting approach may be changed to any orderable (items comparable) logic. In this example,

Map("b"->2, "a"->1, "c"->3) match {
  case MapExtractor ( x, xs @ _* ) => println(s"x: $x") ; println(s"xs: $xs") 
}

delivers

x: (a,1)
xs: ArrayBuffer((b,2), (c,3))

Upvotes: 3

Yuriy
Yuriy

Reputation: 2769

Most easy way is tramsform Map to List:

Map("a"->1, "b"->2, "c"->3).to[List] match {
  case List(a,b,_*) => a
}

Upvotes: 10

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