Elegant way to invert a map in Scala

Question

Learning Scala currently and needed to invert a Map to do some inverted value->key lookups. I was looking for a simple way to do this, but came up with only:

Answer 1

In scala REPL:

scala> val m = Map(1 -> "one", 2 -> "two")
m: scala.collection.immutable.Map[Int,java.lang.String] = Map(1 -> one, 2 -> two)

scala> val reversedM = m map { case (k, v) => (v, k) }
reversedM: scala.collection.immutable.Map[java.lang.String,Int] = Map(one -> 1, two -> 2)

Note that duplicate values will be overwritten by the last addition to the map:

scala> val m = Map(1 -> "one", 2 -> "two", 3 -> "one")
m: scala.collection.immutable.Map[Int,java.lang.String] = Map(1 -> one, 2 -> two, 3 -> one)

scala> val reversedM = m map { case (k, v) => (v, k) }
reversedM: scala.collection.immutable.Map[java.lang.String,Int] = Map(one -> 3, two -> 2)