Scala best way of turning a Collection into a mutable Map-by-key

Question

Here is example of building immutable Map from colleciton. How to do the same but for mutable? (without converting resulting immutable Map to mutable one)

Answer 1

scala> :paste
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val l = List(1,2,3,4)
def f(i:Int ) = (i*10,i)
val m = scala.collection.mutable.Map(l map f : _*)

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l: List[Int] = List(1, 2, 3, 4)
f: (i: Int)(Int, Int)
m: scala.collection.mutable.Map[Int,Int] = Map(20 -> 2, 40 -> 4, 10 -> 1, 30 -> 3)

Answer 2

scala> val mutableMap = scala.collection.mutable.Map.empty[ String , String ]
mutableMap: scala.collection.mutable.Map[String,String] = Map()

scala> val myList = (1 to 10).toList
myList: List[Int] = List(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)

scala> myList.foreach( i => mutableMap += ( i.toString -> ( i * i ).toString ) )

scala> mutableMap
res6: scala.collection.mutable.Map[String,String] = Map(2 -> 4, 5 -> 25, 8 -> 64, 7 -> 49, 1 -> 1, 4 -> 16, 6 -> 36, 9 -> 81, 10 -> 100, 3 -> 9)

// you can also do this by using _* annotation as follows

// first create a immutable map
scala> myList.map( i => ( i.toString -> ( i * i ).toString ) )
res7: scala.collection.immutable.Map[String,String] = Map(2 -> 4, 5 -> 25, 8 -> 64, 7 -> 49, 1 -> 1, 4 -> 16, 6 -> 36, 9 -> 81, 10 -> 100, 3 -> 9)

// then feed the elements of this map as *-parameter argument
scala> scala.collection.mutable.Map( res7: _* )
res7: scala.collection.mutable.Map[String,String] = Map(2 -> 4, 5 -> 25, 8 -> 64, 7 -> 49, 1 -> 1, 4 -> 16, 6 -> 36, 9 -> 81, 10 -> 100, 3 -> 9)