How to cut a for-comprehension short (break out of it) in scala?

Question

I have a piece of code which would code as follows:

val e2 = for (e <- elements if condition(expensiveFunction(e))) yield {
            expensiveFunction(e)
         }

Where the condition will be true for a few elements and then become false for all remaining ones.

Unfortunately this doesn't work (even if I ignore performance) because my elements is an infinite iterator.

Is there a way to use a "break" in a for-comprehension so it stops yielding elements when a certain condition holds? Otherwise, what would be the scala-idiomatic way to compute my e2?

Answer 1

scala> def compute(i: Int) = { println(s"f$i"); 10*i }
compute: (i: Int)Int

scala> for (x <- Stream range (0, 20)) yield compute(x)
f0
res0: scala.collection.immutable.Stream[Int] = Stream(0, ?)

scala> res0 takeWhile (_ < 100)
res1: scala.collection.immutable.Stream[Int] = Stream(0, ?)

scala> res1.toList
f1
f2
f3
f4
f5
f6
f7
f8
f9
f10
res2: List[Int] = List(0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90)

Edit, another demonstration:

scala> def compute(i: Int) = { println(s"f$i"); 10*i }
compute: (i: Int)Int

scala> for (x <- Stream range (0, 20)) yield compute(x)
f0
res0: scala.collection.immutable.Stream[Int] = Stream(0, ?)

scala> res0 takeWhile (_ < 100)
res1: scala.collection.immutable.Stream[Int] = Stream(0, ?)

scala> res1.toList
f1
f2
f3
f4
f5
f6
f7
f8
f9
f10
res2: List[Int] = List(0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90)

scala> Stream.range(0,20).map(compute).toList
f0
f1
f2
f3
f4
f5
f6
f7
f8
f9
f10
f11
f12
f13
f14
f15
f16
f17
f18
f19
res3: List[Int] = List(0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160, 170, 180, 190)

scala> Stream.range(0,20).map(compute).takeWhile(_ < 100).toList
f0
f1
f2
f3
f4
f5
f6
f7
f8
f9
f10
res4: List[Int] = List(0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90)