Reading a text file from res/raw folder

Question

Im trying to read a text file from the raw folder in res using final Scanner input = new Scanner(new File(R.raw.xmlsource)).useDelimiter("[\\\\;]+"); but it isn't reading because of the resource id being int in R.java file, my code is below

EDIT Made some changes to my code below, still doesn't run but using the debugger i can tell that it actually reads the file, the problem seems to be at String[] RssLinksArray = readLine.split("[\\\\;]+"); where the code terminates, i can't for the life of me figure out why. i'm attaching the logcat also.

Any help would be tremendously appreciated.

package com.simplerssreader;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Scanner;

import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException;

import android.app.IntentService;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.ResultReceiver;
import android.util.Log;

public class RssService extends IntentService 
{
public static final String ITEMS = "items";
public static final String RECEIVER = "receiver";

public RssService() 
{
    super("RssService");
}

@Override
protected void onHandleIntent(Intent intent) 
{   
    InputStream is = getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.xmlsource);
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
    String readLine = null;

    try {
        while ((readLine = br.readLine()) != null) 
        {


        }
    } catch (IOException e) 
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    String[] RssLinksArray = readLine.split("[\\;]+");
    final String RSS_LINK = RssLinksArray[0];

    Log.d(Constants.TAG, "Service started");
    List<RssItem> rssItems = null;
    try 
    {
        XMLRssParser parser = new XMLRssParser();
        rssItems = parser.parse(getInputStream(RSS_LINK));
    } 
    catch (XmlPullParserException e) 
    {
        Log.w(e.getMessage(), e);
    } 
    catch (IOException e) 
    {
        Log.w(e.getMessage(), e);
    }
    Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
    bundle.putSerializable(ITEMS, (Serializable) rssItems);
    ResultReceiver receiver = intent.getParcelableExtra(RECEIVER);
    receiver.send(0, bundle);
}

public InputStream getInputStream(String link) 
{
    try 
    {
        URL url = new URL(link);
        return url.openConnection().getInputStream();
    } catch (IOException e) 
    {
        Log.w(Constants.TAG, "Exception while retrieving the input stream", e);
        return null;
    }
}
}

LOGCAT

10-24 23:07:49.908: D/dalvikvm(1189): GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 101K, 9% free 2778K/3040K, paused 68ms, total 72ms
10-24 23:07:49.938: I/dalvikvm-heap(1189): Grow heap (frag case) to 3.939MB for 1127536-byte allocation
10-24 23:07:50.089: D/dalvikvm(1189): GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 2K, 7% free 3877K/4144K, paused 149ms, total 149ms
10-24 23:07:50.461: W/dalvikvm(1189): threadid=11: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x41465700)
10-24 23:07:50.504: E/AndroidRuntime(1189): FATAL EXCEPTION: IntentService[RssService]
10-24 23:07:50.504: E/AndroidRuntime(1189): java.lang.NullPointerException
10-24 23:07:50.504: E/AndroidRuntime(1189):     at com.simplerssreader.RssService.onHandleIntent(RssService.java:48)
10-24 23:07:50.504: E/AndroidRuntime(1189):     at android.app.IntentService$ServiceHandler.handleMessage(IntentService.java:65)
10-24 23:07:50.504: E/AndroidRuntime(1189):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
10-24 23:07:50.504: E/AndroidRuntime(1189):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
10-24 23:07:50.504: E/AndroidRuntime(1189):     at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:61)
10-24 23:07:50.899: D/libEGL(1189): loaded /system/lib/egl/libEGL_emulation.so
10-24 23:07:50.940: D/(1189): HostConnection::get() New Host Connection established 0x2a1db628, tid 1189
10-24 23:07:51.078: D/libEGL(1189): loaded /system/lib/egl/libGLESv1_CM_emulation.so
10-24 23:07:51.279: D/libEGL(1189): loaded /system/lib/egl/libGLESv2_emulation.so
10-24 23:07:51.699: W/EGL_emulation(1189): eglSurfaceAttrib not implemented
10-24 23:07:51.729: D/OpenGLRenderer(1189): Enabling debug mode 0
10-24 23:07:51.769: I/Choreographer(1189): Skipped 85 frames!  The application may be doing too much work on its main thread.
10-24 23:07:56.358: I/Choreographer(1189): Skipped 265 frames!  The application may be doing too much work on its main thread.

Answer 1

InputStream inputStream = getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.xmlsource);
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));