Using delimiter when reading a file

Question

I have little experience using delimiters and i need to read a text file that stores several objects whose data is stored in single lines separate by commas (\",\"). The sep

Answer 1

All of the answers above are right and actually the same. However, one important point everybody should remember that the Scanner has a buffer size of only 1024. That means if the length of the delimited text is more, the parsing will stop.

So, a little enhancement to the given solution, use BufferedReader instead of directly passing the file to the Scanner. Example:

    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("datafile.txt"), 16*1024);
    Scanner read = new Scanner(in);
    read.useDelimiter(",");
    String title, category, runningTime, year, price;

    while(read.hasNext())
    {
        title = read.next();
        category = read.next();
        runningTime = read.next();
        year = read.next();
        price = read.next();
        System.out.println(title + " " + category + " " + runningTime + " " + year + " " + price + "\n"); //just for debugging
    }
    read.close();