Using CSVParser to parse a tab-delimited file

Question

I need to parse a file which is tab delimited. I'm attempting to use CSVBeans version 0.7 to do this. In an XML configuration file, I have to pass a separator value to indicate how fields are delimited, as follows:

parser className="org.csvbeans.parsers.CSVParser"/>
    </strategy>
    <property name="separator" value="\t" />
    <property name="noStartTag" value="true" />
    <converters> 

As shown above, I have tried value="\\t" /> , but it's not working. I have also tried '\\\\t' and '\\t' but to no avail. What value should I use for a tab character?

folks it would be highly appreciated if you guys please let me know the solution specific to csv beans 0.7.1 jar .

Answer 1

In XML a tab character is represented as 	 . So, your file should be like:

<parser className="org.csvbeans.parsers.CSVParser"/>
</strategy>
<property name="separator" value="&#009;" />
<property name="noStartTag" value="true" />
<converters>