Question

How to use regex to extract only words from a string ignoring any other symbols in Scala

Answer 1

import scala.util.matching.Regex

object Main extends App {
    val s = "[Scala], ***C++ #Python (PHP) Java."
    val result = """\b\p{L}+(?:-\p{L}+)*\b""".r.findAllIn(s)

    val wordsList = result.toList
    println(wordsList)
 
    println("\n")
    wordsList.foreach(println)

} 
    
    
    
/*
run:
    
List(Scala, C, Python, PHP, Java)


Scala
C
Python
PHP
Java
    
*/

 

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