Question

I want to parse a file and use 2 ‘new line’ (\n) as a dilimiter instead of EOL and add that into a string object.

Here is the algorithm –

1. While end of file is not reached
2. Read a file until you hit 2 \n's or eof is reached
  put that contents as a string to a List object. 
3. go to 1.

Answer 1

You can use Scanner.useDelimiter() method.

public Scanner useDelimiter(String pattern)

Sets this scanner’s delimiting pattern to a pattern constructed from
the specified String.

According to JLS new line is

LineTerminator:

the ASCII LF character, also known as "newline"

the ASCII CR character, also known as "return"

the ASCII CR character followed by the ASCII LF character