Re: CSVReader

From:
Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:19:55 GMT
Message-ID:
<2gi1r3tqbelfkabgp9om7dd75dd3ach01d@4ax.com>
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:17:51 +0100, "Christoph Keller"
<chkeller@bluewin.ch> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :

It works fine for s1, s2, but s3 is null. How would the get() method read
from the next line?


get() returns null for EOL.

Typical use:

CSVReader csv = new CSVReader( new FileReader( "currency.csv" ),
                               ',',
                               '\"',
                               false /* multiline */,
                               true /* trim */ );
try
   {
   while ( true )
      {
      // treat all fields as Strings
      String[] fields = csv.getAllFieldsInLine();
      ...
      }
   }
catch ( EOFException e )
   {
   }
csv.close();

or

CSVReader t = new CSVReader( new FileReader( "currency.csv" ) );
try
   {
   while ( true )
      {
      String countryCode = t.get();
      double exchange = t.getDouble();
      t.skip(1);// ignore field
      int decimalPlaces = t.getInt();
      t.skipToNextLine();
      ...
      }// end while
   }
catch ( EOFException e )
   {
   t.close();
   }

There two examples are now included in the download.
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