[java] Reading a column from CSV file using JAVA

Hi I am trying to read a CSV File called test.csv in JAVA . Below is my code :

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;

public class InsertValuesIntoTestDb {

    @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
                String splitBy = ",";
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("test.csv"));
        String line = br.readLine();
        while(line!=null){
             String[] b = line.split(splitBy);
             System.out.println(b[0]);
        }
        br.close();

  }
}

This is my CSV File (test.csv):

a,f,w,b,numinst,af,ub
1RW,800,64,22,1,48:2,true
1RW,800,16,39,1,48:2,true
1RW,800,640,330,1,48:2,true
1RW,800,40,124,1,48:2,true
1RW,800,32,104,1,48:2,true
1RW,800,8,104,1,48:2,true
1R1W,800,65536,39,1,96:96,true
1R1W,800,2048,39,1,96:96,true
1R1W,800,8192,39,1,48:48,true

I am trying to print the first column in the csv ,but the output I get is only a in an infinite loop . Can anyone please help me fix this code to print the entire first column. Thanks.

If you are using Java 7+, you may want to use NIO.2, e.g.:

❍ Code:

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

    File file = new File("test.csv");

    List<String> lines = Files.readAllLines(file.toPath(), 
            StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

    for (String line : lines) {
        String[] array = line.split(",", -1);
        System.out.println(array[0]);
    }

}

❍ Output:

a
1RW
1RW
1RW
1RW
1RW
1RW
1R1W
1R1W
1R1W

You are not changing the value of line. It should be something like this.

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;

public class InsertValuesIntoTestDb {

  @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
      String splitBy = ",";
      BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("test.csv"));
      while((line = br.readLine()) != null){
           String[] b = line.split(splitBy);
           System.out.println(b[0]);
      }
      br.close();

  }
}

readLine returns each line and only returns null when there is nothing left. The above code sets line and then checks if it is null.

Splitting by comma doesn't work all the time for instance if you have csv file like

"Name" , "Job" , "Address"
"Pratiyush, Singh" , "Teacher" , "Berlin, Germany"

So, I would recommend using the Apache Commons CSV API:

    Reader in = new FileReader("input1.csv");
    Iterable<CSVRecord> records = CSVFormat.EXCEL.parse(in);
    for (CSVRecord record : records) {
      System.out.println(record.get(0));
    }