Scala and Java -- any improved string manipulation packages?
As I mentioned a few times over the past couple of months (here: ant, scala, antlr, and TestNG, and quarkup and quirkywiki in Scala, and quarkup into Scala), I've been doing a semi-mindless translation from Python into Scala. For this particular small project, I think the most pain (after learning just how deeply to hate ant, and after giving up on TestNG) is the incredible cruftiness of attempting to do a bunch of string manipulation in Scala. IMHO, both Java and Scala could use some serious improvement here. Unfortunately for Java and even for Scala, I'm comparing them with Python and Ruby, both of which have very much more concise syntaxes for string hacking.
I guess my next step in that direction should be to google around and see what other folks might have come up with.
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