How to find if a Scala String is parseable as a Double or not?

Question

Suppose that I have a string in scala and I want to try to parse a double out of it.

I know that, I can just call toDouble and then catch the java num

Answer 1

scala> import scala.util.Try
import scala.util.Try

scala> def parseDouble(s: String): Option[Double] = Try { s.toDouble }.toOption
parseDouble: (s: String)Option[Double]

scala> parseDouble("3.14")
res0: Option[Double] = Some(3.14)

scala> parseDouble("hello")
res1: Option[Double] = None