Scala Language Extractors Regex Extractors
Example
A regular expression with grouped parts can be used as an extractor:
scala> val address = """(.+):(\d+)""".r
address: scala.util.matching.Regex = (.+):(\d+)
scala> val address(host, port) = "some.domain.org:8080"
host: String = some.domain.org
port: String = 8080
Note that when it is not matched, a MatchError will be thrown at runtime:
scala> val address(host, port) = "something not a host and port"
scala.MatchError: something not a host and port (of class java.lang.String)
