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summerNight
summerNight

Reputation: 1496

Replace strings and save file in Scala

I have the following code where I am reading a file and replacing any occurences of "*.tar.gz" file with the new file name provided. Everything works fine and I can see the replaced changes in the console however I am not being able to write a new file with all the changes.

def modifyFile(newFileName: String, filename: String) = {
    Source.fromFile(filename).getLines.foreach { line =>
      println(line.replaceAll(".+\\.tar\\.gz", newFileName.concat(".tar.gz")))
    }
  }
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1728

Answers (1)

Aivean
Aivean

Reputation: 10882

You forgot to write your modified lines into the new file:

def modifyFile(newFileName: String, sourceFilePath: String, targetFilePath:String) {
  scala.tools.nsc.io.File(targetFilePath).printlnAll(
    Source.fromFile(sourceFilePath).getLines().map { 
       _.replaceAll(".+\\.tar\\.gz", newFileName.concat(".tar.gz"))
    }.toSeq:_*)
}

Please note that this approach is not the most efficient in terms of performance, as the content of source file is read fully to memory, processed and then written back. More efficient approach will be more verbose and will include java's FileReader/FileWriter.

Upd

As rightfully pointed in comments you have to chose suitable way to write result to file depending on what tools and dependencies you have.

Upvotes: 2

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