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Pragmatic Scala
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Pragmatic Scala

by Venkat Subramaniam
September 2015
Intermediate to advanced
250 pages
6h 40m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Reading and Writing Files

Now that you know how to get user input in Scala, it’s time to see how to write data to a file. We can use the java.io.File object to achieve this. Here’s an example of writing to a file:

UsingScala/WriteToFile.scala
 
import​ java.io._
 
 
val​ writer = ​new​ PrintWriter(​new​ File(​"symbols.txt"​))
 
writer write ​"AAPL"
 
writer.close()

This simple code writes the symbol “AAPL” to the file named symbols.txt.

Reading files is really simple as well. Scala’s Source class and its companion object come in handy for this purpose. For illustration purposes, let’s write a Scala script that reads itself:

UsingScala/ReadingFile.scala
 
import​ scala.io.Source
 
 
println(​"*** The content of the file you read is:"​)
 
Source.fromFile(​ ...
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