Matching against a regular expression in Scala

Question

I fairly frequently match strings against regular expressions. In Java:

java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(\"\\w+\").matcher(\"this_is\").matches

Ouch. Scala has

Answer 1

Currently (Aug 2014, Scala 2.11) @David's reply tells the norm.

However, it seems the r."..." string interpolator may be on its way to help with this. See How to pattern match using regular expression in Scala?