How do I compare two arrays in scala?

Question

val a: Array[Int] = Array(1,2,4,5)
val b: Array[Int] = Array(1,2,4,5)
a==b // false

Is there a pattern-matching way to see if two arrays (or sequen

Answer 1

For best performance you should use:

java.util.Arrays.equals(a, b)

This is very fast and does not require extra object allocation. Array[T] in scala is the same as Object[] in java. Same story for primitive values like Int which is java int.

Answer 2

You need to change your last line to

a.deep == b.deep

to do a deep comparison of the arrays.

Answer 3

  a.corresponds(b){_ == _}

Scaladoc: true if both sequences have the same length and p(x, y) is true for all corresponding elements x of this wrapped array and y of that, otherwise false

Answer 4

As of Scala 2.13, the deep equality approach doesn't work and errors out:

val a: Array[Int] = Array(1,2,4,5)
val b: Array[Int] = Array(1,2,4,5)
a.deep == b.deep // error: value deep is not a member of Array[Int]

sameElements still works in Scala 2.13:

a sameElements b // true

Answer 5

From Programming Scala:

Array(1,2,4,5).sameElements(Array(1,2,4,5))