Scala replacement for Arrays.binarySearch?

Question

Is there a replacement in Scala for Java\'s int Arrays.binarySearch(Object[] array, object)?

The problem is that Scala\'s Arrays are not covariant, so I

Answer 1

Scala 2.11 added scala.collection.Searching to the standard library. It uses binary search for indexed sequences and linear search otherwise.

import scala.collection.Searching._
Array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5).search(3)