How to check whether a String fully matches a Regex in Scala?

Question

Assume I have a Regex pattern I want to match many Strings to.

val Digit = \"\"\"\\d\"\"\".r

I just want to check whether a given String fu

Answer 1

I don't know Scala all that well, but it looks like you can just do:

"5".matches("\\d")

References

• http://langref.org/scala/pattern-matching/matching