Print whole result in interactive Scala console

Question

When I type something into the Scala interactive console, the console prints the result of the statement. If the result is too long, the console crops it (scroll right to see i

Answer 1

The result is not "cropped", simply println is invoking java.lang.Arrays.toString() (since scala.Array is a Java array).

Specifically, Arrays defines a toString overload that works with Object, which calls the toString implementation of java.lang.Object on every element. Such implementation prints the reference of the object, so you end up with

[Lscala.Tuple2;@4de71ca9

which is an Array containing the reference 4de71ca9 to a scala.Tuple2 object.

That has been discussed in this ticket years ago.

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In the specific case of arrays, you can simply do

println(x.mkString("\n"))

or

x foreach println

or

println(x.deep)

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Update

To answer your last edit, you can set the maximum lenght of the strings printed by the REPL

scala> :power
** Power User mode enabled - BEEP WHIR GYVE **
** :phase has been set to 'typer'.          **
** scala.tools.nsc._ has been imported      **
** global._, definitions._ also imported    **
** Try  :help, :vals, power.           **

scala> vals.isettings.maxPrintString = Int.MaxValue
vals.isettings.maxPrintString: Int = 2147483647