Scala: Elegant conversion of a string into a boolean

Question

In Java you can write Boolean.valueOf(myString). However in Scala, java.lang.Boolean is hidden by scala.Boolean which lacks this function. It's easy enough to switch to using the original Java version of a boolean, but that just doesn't seem right.

So what is the one-line, canonical solution in Scala for extracting "true" from a string?

Answer 1

Note: Don't write new Boolean(myString) in Java - always use Boolean.valueOf(myString). Using the new variant unnecessarily creates a Boolean object; using the valueOf variant doesn't do this.

Answer 2

Ah, I am silly. The answer is myString.toBoolean.