By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: May 2, 2019
If you ever need a Scala method/function to convert a string with newline characters in it to a sequence of strings (Seq[String]
), here you go:
def convertStringWithNewlinesToSeq(s: String): Seq[String] = s.split("\n").toVector
You can convert the final result to a Vector
, Seq
, List
, ArrayBuffer
, Array
, etc., but I prefer Vector
. The Scala REPL demonstrates how it works:
scala> convertStringWithNewlinesToSeq("") res0: Seq[String] = Vector("") scala> convertStringWithNewlinesToSeq("foo") res1: Seq[String] = Vector(foo) scala> convertStringWithNewlinesToSeq("foo\nbar\nbaz") res2: Seq[String] = Vector(foo, bar, baz) scala> convertStringWithNewlinesToSeq("foo\nbar\nbaz\n\n") res3: Seq[String] = Vector(foo, bar, baz)