Scala for the Impatient, 3rd Edition

Chapter 9. Files and Regular Expressions

Topics in This Chapter A1

• 9.1 Reading Lines

• 9.2 Reading Characters

• 9.3 Reading Tokens and Numbers

• 9.4 Reading from URLs and Other Sources

• 9.5 Writing Files

• 9.6 Visiting Directories

• 9.7 Serialization

• 9.8 Process Control A2

• 9.9 Regular Expressions

• 9.10 Regular Expression Groups

• Exercises

This chapter interrupts the treatment of the Scala language to give you some tools from the Scala libraries. You will learn how to carry out common file processing tasks, such as reading all lines or words from a file, and to work with regular expressions.

This interlude has useful information for projects that you can embark on with your current knowledge of Scala. Of course, if you prefer, skip the chapter until you ...