LESSON 378 OF 414 · PROJECTS: COMMAND-LINE TOOLS

CLI Tool: head v2 — First n Lines in Scala

Practice

Extend your head command to take an integer n and return the first n lines of lines, joined by newline characters (\n). For this version you may assume 0 ≤ n ≤ lines.length. If n is 0 the result is the empty string.

Function signature:

def head(lines: Array[String], n: Int): String

Example:

Input: lines = ["alpha", "beta", "gamma", "delta", "epsilon"], n = 3

Output: "alpha\nbeta\ngamma"

When printed:
alpha
beta
gamma

Use lines.slice(0, n) for the first n elements, then mkString("\n"). Since the problem guarantees n ≤ lines.length, no min needed.

Combine the slice and join into one expression:

return lines.slice(0, n).mkString("\n")

The full solution:

class Solution {
    def head(lines: Array[String], n: Int): String = {
        return lines.slice(0, n).mkString("\n")
    }
}

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CLI Tool: head v2 — First n Lines in Scala

Head V2 in Scala