SaveAs for Strings in Scala with "Pimp my library" pattern

Problem

Have you ever wanted to save a string to a file? Well, it's one of this things you don't want to do in 3 lines of code like this:

val f = new FileWriter("some/file/name.txt")
f.write("My string I want to save")
f.close()

I would rather see it like that:

"My string I want to save".saveAs("some/file/name.txt")

Solution

Luckily in Scala we can use "pimp my library" pattern. It uses implicits to convert String to RichString containing the saveAs method:

	implicit def toRichString(s:String) : RichString = new RichString(s)
	class RichString(s: String){
	def saveAs(fileName: String) = write(fileName, s)
	private[this] def write(fileName: String, content: String) {
	val f = new FileWriter(fileName)
	f.write(content)
	f.close()
	}
	}
	"My string I want to save".saveAs("some/file/name.txt")

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