How to Use Scala Pattern Matching

When your if-else statements get too long, it’s time to consider pattern matching.

billydharmawan
Towards Data Science
6 min readMay 4, 2020

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Overview

Pattern matching is one of the most powerful tools that the Scala language has to offer. It is similar to when statement in Kotlin and switch statement in Java.

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