Replace element in List with scala

Question

How do you replace an element by index with an immutable List.

E.g.

val list = 1 :: 2 ::3 :: 4 :: List()

list.replace(2, 5)

Answer 1

You can use map to generate a new list , like this :

@ list
res20: List[Int] = List(1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4)
@ list.map(e => if(e==4) 0 else e)
res21: List[Int] = List(1, 2, 3, 0, 0, 5, 0)