How to convert a monolithic CSV String into a List<String>?

Question

I have a CSV stored in a String:

Abc, Def, Ghi, Jkl, Mno[CR|LF]
Abc, Def, Ghi, Jkl, Mno[CR|LF]
Abc, Def, Ghi, Jkl, Mno[CR|LF]
Abc, Def, Ghi, Jkl, Mno[CR|LF]

When I open the file in Notepad++ and use " Show All Characters " I see the newline character at the end of each line represented by the [CR|LF] notation I indicated above.

How do convert this monolithic String into a List<String> where each line above represents a separate String in the List but without the [CR|LF] characters?

Answer 1

I think it should be as simple as:

String allData /* = readCSVFromFile() */;
String[] rows = allData.split("\r\n");
List<String> rowList = Arrays.asList(rows);

Answer 2

Use a BufferedReader . Something like this:

List<String> rows = new ArrayList<String>();
BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("file.csv"));
String line = null;
while ((line = r.readLine()) != null)
{
    rows.add(line);
}