Scala: write string to file in one statement

Question

For reading files in Scala, there is

Source.fromFile(\"file.txt\").mkString

Is there an equivalent and concise way to write a string to fi

Answer 1

If you like Groovy syntax, you can use the Pimp-My-Library design pattern to bring it to Scala:

import java.io._
import scala.io._

class RichFile( file: File ) {

  def text = Source.fromFile( file )(Codec.UTF8).mkString

  def text_=( s: String ) {
    val out = new PrintWriter( file , "UTF-8")
    try{ out.print( s ) }
    finally{ out.close }
  }
}

object RichFile {

  implicit def enrichFile( file: File ) = new RichFile( file )

}

It will work as expected:

scala> import RichFile.enrichFile
import RichFile.enrichFile

scala> val f = new File("/tmp/example.txt")
f: java.io.File = /tmp/example.txt

scala> f.text = "hello world"

scala> f.text
res1: String = 
"hello world