Using comparison operators in Scala's pattern matching system

Question

Is it possible to match on a comparison using the pattern matching system in Scala? For example:

a match {
    case 10 => println(\"ten\")
    case _ >         


        

Answer 1

While all the above and bellow answers perfectly answer the original question, some additional information can be found in the documentation https://docs.scala-lang.org/tour/pattern-matching.html , they didn't fit in my case but because this stackoverflow answer is the first suggestion in Google I would like to post my answer which is a corner case of the question above.
My question is:

• How to use a guard in match expression with an argument of a function?

Which can be paraphrased:

• How to use an if statement in match expression with an argument of a function?

The answer is the code example below:

    def drop[A](l: List[A], n: Int): List[A] = l match {
      case Nil => sys.error("drop on empty list")
      case xs if n <= 0 => xs
      case _ :: xs => drop(xs, n-1)
    }

link to scala fiddle : https://scalafiddle.io/sf/G37THif/2 as you can see the case xs if n <= 0 => xs statement is able to use n(argument of a function) with the guard(if) statement.

I hope this helps someone like me.