Getting Value of Either

Question

Besides using match, is there an Option-like way to getOrElse the actual content of the Right or Left value?

Answer 1

Given type A on both sides, that is, Either[A, A], we can use Either.merge

...to extract values from Either instances regardless of whether they are Left or Right.

Note if left and right types differ then result becomes Any:

val e: Either[Int, String] = Right("hello")
e.merge // hello: Any