CSV stands for Comma Seperated Values, it is the popular format used for import and exporting of data. Java by default doesn’t provide a parser for CSV hence at the end we will end up writing up a parser. OpenCSV is a third party library which can effecitively handle a CSV file. In this article we will learn how to read a CSV file and how to write data to a CSV file using OpenCSV.
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How to read and parse CSV file in Java
CSV stands for Comma Seperated Values. A CSV file is used for data storage, it looks like a normal text file containing organised information seperated by a delimiter Comma. There are many ways of Reading and Parsing a CSV file, in this example we will look into the below three methods
- Using BufferedReader and String.split()
- Using Scanner of Java Util package
- Using 3rd party library like OpenCSV
