Pragmatic Scala

String Interpolation

Creating a string form of output or messages is a chore in Java. For example, it takes effort to create a message “A discount of 10% has been applied” where the value 10 comes from a variable named discount. You may write:

String message = "A discount of " + discount + "% has been applied"

In addition to the effort, the code is hard to read. Alternately, you could write:

String message = String.format("A discount of %d% has been applied", discount);

But that’s verbose too. Scala provides a fluent and concise syntax to create string literals with expressions. Here’s the Scala equivalent that produces the desired message:

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