Possible Duplicates: Fast CSV parsing How to properly parse CSV file to 2d Array?

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Asked: May 25, 20262026-05-25T06:07:33+00:00 2026-05-25T06:07:33+00:00

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Fast CSV parsing
How to properly parse CSV file to 2d Array?

I’m very new to java file handling. Please, can any one tell me what is “CSV file format,” and how to parse this type of file?

I want to take an input of employee data from a CSV file and save it in a hash map.

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-25T06:07:33+00:00

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CSV stands for Comma Separated Values.

Here data is stored as so:

ID,Name,Age
20,"abcd xyz",33
30,asdf,28

OpenCSV is one good library for parsing CSV files.

There are other cousins of the CSV such as TSV (Tab Separated Values) and PSV (Pipe Separated Values). The below link should give you a head start:

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