Regarding Java Split Command Parsing Csv File

Question

I have a csv file in the below format.

H,\"TestItems_20100107.csv\",07/01/2010,20:00:00,\"TT1198\",\"MOBb\",\"AMD\",NEW,,

I require the spl

Answer 1

There's nothing wrong with the regular expression. The problem is that split discards empty matches at the end:

This method works as if by invoking the two-argument split method with the given expression and a limit argument of zero. Trailing empty strings are therefore not included in the resulting array.

A workaround is to supply an argument greater than the number of columns you expect in your CSV file:

 String[] tokens = line.split(",(?=([^\"]*\"[^\"]*\")*[^\"]*$)", 99);