match with string numbers - unreachable code

Question

New to scala, and can\'t seem to get my match expression to work. I\'ve read about the differences between how the statement is evaluated (e.g. a new variable as opposed to one

Answer 1

Either of these would work:

// declared inside of object
val numberOne = "+17201234567"
val numberTwo = "+17201235678"

def returnSomething(number: String): String = number match {
  case `numberOne` => "my first number"
  case `numberTwo` => "my second number"
  case _ => "a default number"
}


// declared inside of object
val NumberOne = "+17201234567"
val NumberTwo = "+17201235678"

def returnSomething(number: String): String = number match {
  case NumberOne => "my first number"
  case NumberTwo => "my second number"
  case _ => "a default number"
}

But you said you tried and it did not work. So, what exactly went wrong?