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Asked: 2026-06-03T07:55:03+00:00

Given snippet composes of method calls, which return an option type. I’d like to

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Given snippet composes of method calls, which return an option type. I’d like to call the next method if previous call returned None. I’m able to accomplish this with this snippet

def amountToPay : Option[TextBoxExtraction] =
  getMaxByFontsize(keywordAmountsWithCurrency) match {
    case None => getMaxByFontsize(keywordAmounts) match {
      case None  =>  highestKeywordAmount match {
        case None => getMaxByFontsize(amountsWithCurrency) match {
          case None => highestAmount
          case some => some
        }
        case some => some
      }
      case some => some
    }
    case some => some
  }

but it looks quite messy. So I hope there is abetter way to do it.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yep, orElse is a little cleaner:

    def amountToPay : Option[TextBoxExtraction] =
  getMaxByFontsize(keywordAmountsWithCurrency)
    .orElse(getMaxByFontsize(keywordAmounts))
    .orElse(highestKeywordAmount)
    .orElse(getMaxByFontsize(amountsWithCurrency))
    .orElse(highestAmount)

    You could also just put the items in a Seq and then use something like xs.reduceLeft(_ orElse _) or xs.flatten.headOption.getOrElse(highestAmount).

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