Read and split text file into an array - Android

Question

I have gone through loads of these questions but still cant seem to figure it out. I have a text file split into rows. Each row consists of 5 pieces of data separated by a \

Answer 1

See Using BufferedReader.readLine() in a while loop properly for an example of reading a file line by line using a buffered reader, then combine this with Kon's answer and I think you have a solution.

AssetManager manger;
String line = null;
List xyzList = new ArrayList();
String[][] xyz;  
InputStream is;
InputStreamReader isr;
BufferedReader br;
try {
    manger = getAssets();
    is = manager.open("data.txt");
    isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
    br = new BufferedReader(isr);
    while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
      xyzList.add(line.split(","));
    }
    xyz = (String[][])xyzList.toArray();
}catch (IOException e1) {
    Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Problem!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}finally{
    br.close();
    isr.close();
    is.close();
}