parsing CSV data with quotation marks

From:
thufir <hawat.thufir@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:07 GMT
Message-ID:
<borUj.120109$rd2.108675@pd7urf3no>
The text file really is CSV, but I also need to strip out the quotation
marks. I suppose I can use the comma as a delimiter and then strip out
the quotation marks, but I feel like there's a better idiom. Any
pointers? (yes, I'll replace "foos" with guests.)

thufir@arrakis:~/bcit-comp2611-lab4$
thufir@arrakis:~/bcit-comp2611-lab4$
thufir@arrakis:~/bcit-comp2611-lab4$ cat src/a00720398/util/guests.txt
"Lee", "Brenda", "(604) 636-1000", "b.lee@bcit.ca"
thufir@arrakis:~/bcit-comp2611-lab4$
thufir@arrakis:~/bcit-comp2611-lab4$ cat src/a00720398/labs/Lab4.java
/**
 * Lab4.java
 */

package a00720398.labs;

import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import a00720398.util.*;

public class Lab4 {
        public static void main (String[] args) {
                scan();
        }

        public static void scan(){
                Scanner s = null;
                List<String> guests = new ArrayList<String>();

                try {

                        //Scanner s = new Scanner(input).useDelimiter("\
\s*fish\\s*");
                        s = new Scanner(new BufferedReader(new FileReader
("guests.txt"))).useDelimiter("\"");
                        while (s.hasNext()) {
                                String guest = s.next();
                                guests.add(guest);
                        }
                } catch (IOException e) {
                        System.out.println(e.getMessage());
                        e.printStackTrace();
                } finally {
                        if (s != null) {
                                s.close();
                        }
                }

        System.out.println(guests);

        }
}

thufir@arrakis:~/bcit-comp2611-lab4$

thanks,

Thufir

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