Parsing CSV in java

Question

I have this weird situation where I have to read horizontally. So I am getting a csv file which has data in horizontal format. Like below:

CompanyName,RunDat         


        

Answer 1

A CSV file is a \n terminated file that each column can be seperated either by:

• Comma or
• Tabs \t

I suggest that you have a BufferedReader that reads the CSV file and use the readLine() method to read the row.

From each row, use String.split(arg) where arg will be your comma or tab \t to have an array of columns....from there, you know what to do.