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    Post Reading comma seperated text file

    Hi,
    I need to read the contents of a text file which contains comma separated values into my code. Code iterates until last line in text file is read, then ends. Now i am able to read a line with "strLine". See my code below so far:

    TEXT FILE CONTENT (test.txt)
    00000000, 05007
    00000001, 05487
    00000002, 05456
    import java.io.*;
    public class ODBmain
    {

    public static void ODBmain()
    {
    // initialise instance variables
    {
    try{
    // Open the file that is the first
    // command line parameter
    FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream("test.txt");
    // Get the object of DataInputStream
    DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(fstream);
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
    String strLine;
    FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter("test.xml");
    BufferedWriter buffWriter = new BufferedWriter(fileWriter);
    while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
    buffWriter.write("<sn:SuMSubscriberProfile id=\"233" + strLine + "\">");
    buffWriter.newLine();
    buffWriter.write("<kk>05007</kk>");
    buffWriter.newLine();

    How do i separate strLine so i can read and iterate second field 05007, 05487 in kk.

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    Default Re: Reading comma seperated text file

    How do i separate strLine
    The String class's split() method will separate tokens on a line into separate elements in an array.
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    Default Re: Reading comma seperated text file

    How do i refer to returned values for String.split() in my code for COLUMN1 and COLUMN2 please?

    while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
    strLine.split(",")
    buffWriter.write("<sn:SuMSubscriberProfile id=\"233" + COLUMN1 + "\">");
    buffWriter.newLine();
    buffWriter.write("<kk>COLUMN2</kk>");
    buffWriter.newLine();
    ...

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    Default Re: Reading comma seperated text file

    Well, the split function returns an array of strings. So you need a String array, and assign the split function to that array.

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    The split() method returns a value (an array) that has the separated tokens.
    array = string.split(...);
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