“using” function

Starting Scala 2.13, the standard library provides a dedicated resource management utility: Using.

More specifically, the Using#Manager can be used when dealing with several resources.

In our case, we can manage different resources such as your PrintWriter or BufferedReader as they both implement AutoCloseable, in order to read and write from a file to another and, no matter what, close both the input and the output resource afterwards:

import scala.util.Using
import java.io.{PrintWriter, BufferedReader, FileReader}

Using.Manager { use =>

  val in  = use(new BufferedReader(new FileReader("input.txt")))
  val out = use(new PrintWriter("output.txt"))

  out.println(in.readLine)
}
// scala.util.Try[Unit] = Success(())