Scala - case match partial string

Question

I have the following:

serv match {

    case \"chat\" => Chat_Server ! Relay_Message(serv)
    case _ => null

}

The problem is that some

Answer 1

In case you want to dismiss any groupings when using regexes, make sure you use a sequence wildcard like _* (as per Scala's documentation).

From the example above:

val Pattern = "(chat.*)".r

serv match {
     case Pattern(_*) => "It's a chat"
     case _ => "Something else"
}