How to find a matching element in a list and map it in as an Scala API method?

Question

Is there a method to do the following without doing both methods: find and map?

val l = 0 to 3
l.find(_ * 33 % 2 == 0).map(_ * 33) //          


        

Answer 1

Hey look, it's my little buddy findMap again!

/**
 * Finds the first element in the list that satisfies the partial function, then 
 * maps it through the function.
 */
def findMap[A,B](in: Traversable[A])(f: PartialFunction[A,B]): Option[B] = {
  in.find(f.isDefinedAt(_)).map(f(_))
}

Note that, unlike in the accepted answer, but like the collectFirst method mentioned in one of its comments, this guy stops as soon as he finds a matching element.