How to write to a file in Scala?

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This is one of the features missing from standard Scala that I have found so useful that I add it to my personal library. (You probably should have a personal library, too.) The code goes like so:

def printToFile(f: java.io.File)(op: java.io.PrintWriter => Unit) {
  val p = new java.io.PrintWriter(f)
  try { op(p) } finally { p.close() }
}

and it’s used like this:

import java.io._
val data = Array("Five","strings","in","a","file!")
printToFile(new File("example.txt")) { p =>
  data.foreach(p.println)
}

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