Array (original) (raw)
scala.Array
See theArray companion object
Arrays are mutable, indexed collections of values. Array[T] is Scala's representation for Java's T[].
val numbers = Array(1, 2, 3, 4)
val first = numbers(0) // read the first element
numbers(3) = 100 // replace the 4th array element with 100
val biggerNumbers = numbers.map(_ * 2) // multiply all numbers by two
Arrays make use of two common pieces of Scala syntactic sugar, shown on lines 2 and 3 of the above example code. Line 2 is translated into a call to apply(Int), while line 3 is translated into a call to update(Int, T).
Two implicit conversions exist in scala.Predef that are frequently applied to arrays: a conversion to scala.collection.ArrayOps (shown on line 4 of the example above) and a conversion to scala.collection.mutable.ArraySeq (a subtype of scala.collection.Seq). Both types make available many of the standard operations found in the Scala collections API. The conversion to ArrayOps is temporary, as all operations defined on ArrayOps return an Array, while the conversion to ArraySeq is permanent as all operations return a ArraySeq.
The conversion to ArrayOps takes priority over the conversion to ArraySeq. For instance, consider the following code:
val arr = Array(1, 2, 3)
val arrReversed = arr.reverse
val seqReversed : collection.Seq[Int] = arr.reverse
Value arrReversed will be of type Array[Int], with an implicit conversion to ArrayOps occurring to perform the reverse operation. The value of seqReversed, on the other hand, will be computed by converting to ArraySeq first and invoking the variant of reverse that returns another ArraySeq.
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See also
Scala Language Specification, for in-depth information on the transformations the Scala compiler makes on Arrays (Sections 6.6 and 6.15 respectively.)
"Scala 2.8 Arrays" the Scala Improvement Document detailing arrays since Scala 2.8.
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The element at given index.
The element at given index.
Indices start at 0; xs.apply(0) is the first element of array xs. Note the indexing syntax xs(i) is a shorthand for xs.apply(i).
Value parameters
i
the index
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Returns
the element at the given index
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Clone the Array.
Clone the Array.
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Returns
A clone of the Array.
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Update the element at given index.
Update the element at given index.
Indices start at 0; xs.update(i, x) replaces the ith element in the array. Note the syntax xs(i) = x is a shorthand for xs.update(i, x).
Value parameters
i
the index
x
the value to be written at index i
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