I am using scala 2.7.7, and wanted to parse CSV file and store the data in SQLite database.

I ended up using OpenCSV java library to parse the CSV file, and using sqlitejdbc library.

Using these java libraries makes my scala code looks almost identical to that of Java code (sans semicolon and with val/var)

As I am dealing with java objects, I can't use scala list, map, etc, unless I do scala2java conversion or upgrade to scala 2.8

Is there a way I can simplify my code further using scala bits that I don't know?

val filename = "file.csv";
val reader = new CSVReader(new FileReader(filename))
var aLine = new Array[String](10)
var lastSymbol = ""
while( (aLine = reader.readNext()) != null ) {
    if( aLine != null ) {
        val symbol = aLine(0)
        if( !symbol.equals(lastSymbol)) { 
            try {
                val rs = stat.executeQuery("select name from sqlite_master where name='" + symbol + "';" )
                if( !rs.next() ) {
                    stat.executeUpdate("drop table if exists '" + symbol + "';")
                    stat.executeUpdate("create table '" + symbol + "' (symbol,data,open,high,low,close,vol);")
                }
            }
            catch {
              case sqle : java.sql.SQLException =>
                 println(sqle)

            }
            lastSymbol = symbol
        }
        val prep = conn.prepareStatement("insert into '" + symbol + "' values (?,?,?,?,?,?,?);")
        prep.setString(1, aLine(0)) //symbol
        prep.setString(2, aLine(1)) //date
        prep.setString(3, aLine(2)) //open
        prep.setString(4, aLine(3)) //high
        prep.setString(5, aLine(4)) //low
        prep.setString(6, aLine(5)) //close
        prep.setString(7, aLine(6)) //vol
        prep.addBatch()
        prep.executeBatch()
     }
}

conn.close()