Demo code for CSV parsing with OpenCSV . Java code: import java.io.*; import au.com.bytecode.opencs... Test with a simple CSV file: psmith01,CLASS2B,Peter Smith 1,YEAR2,1,N,ADVANCED,... The parser worked correctly: Line 1 has 11 values: |psmith01| |CLASS2B|... Test with a more complicated CSV file: "psmith01 abc", "CLASS2B " , " Peter... Result: Line 1 has 4 values: |psmith01 abc| |CLASS... The parser: Escaped quote and backslash correctly Ignored spaces before the quotation mark - sometimes (see below) Counted spaces after the right quotation mark till the comma as content, including the right quotation mark (bug). Ignored improperly quoted item - silently (third line) Indeed, the OpenCSV parser has a problem with spaces: Input: "Smith, Jack", "210-345-8888" "Smith, J... Result: Line 1 has 2 values: | Smith, Jack| |210-3......

Demo code for CSV parsing with Skife CSV . Java code: import java.io.*; import java.util.*; import... Test with a simple CSV file: psmith01,CLASS2B,Peter Smith 1,YEAR2,1,N,ADVANCED,... The parser worked correctly: Line 1 has 11 values: |psmith01| |CLASS2B|... Test with a more complicated CSV file: "psmith01 abc", "CLASS2B " , " Peter... Result: Line 1 has 4 values: |psmith01 abc| | CLAS... The parser worked correctly. But notice that it counts the spaces outside of the quotes significant, and doing so consistently. One more test for spaces: "Smith, Jack" , "210-345-8888" "Smith, Jack"... Result: Line 1 has 2 values: | Smith, Jack | | 210... Add a new line in item two: "One", "Two ", "Three" Result: Line 1 has 2 values: |One| | Two| L...

Demo code for CSV parsing with Apache Commons CSV parser . Java code: import java.io.*; import org.apache.commons.csv... Test with a simple CSV file: psmith01,CLASS2B,Peter Smith 1,YEAR2,1,N,ADVANCED,... Result: Line 1 has 11 values: |psmith01| |CLASS2B|... The parser worked correctly. Test with a more complicated CSV file: "psmith01 abc", "CLASS2B " , " Peter... Result: Line 1 has 4 values: |psmith01 abc| |CLASS... The third line is invalid input, but throwing a Java IOException is a bit grave. Also, the parser is not able to escape a backslash. Add a new line in item two: "One", "Two ", "Three" Result: Line 2 has 3 values: |One| |Two | |...

Demo code for CSV parsing with SuperCSV parser . Java code: import java.io.*; import java.util.List; imp... Test with a simple CSV file: psmith01,CLASS2B,Peter Smith 1,YEAR2,1,N,ADVANCED,... The parser worked correctly: Line 1 has 11 values: |psmith01| |CLASS2B|... Test with a more complicated CSV file: "psmith01 abc", "CLASS2B " , " Peter... The parser messed up on all three lines: Line 1 has 5 values: |psmith01 abc| |CLASS... Using two lines input: "psmith01 abc", "CLASS2B " , " Peter... It generates an exception: Line 1 has 5 values: |psmith01 abc| |CLASS... Add a new line in item two: "One", "Two ", "Three" Result: Line 2 has 3 values: |One| |Two | |...

Demo code for CSV parsing with OstermillerUtils . Java code: import java.io.*; import java.util.List; imp... Test with a simple CSV file: psmith01,CLASS2B,Peter Smith 1,YEAR2,1,N,ADVANCED,... The parser worked correctly: Line 1 has 11 values: |psmith01| |CLASS2B|... Test with a more complicated CSV file: "psmith01 abc", "CLASS2B " , " Peter... The parser messed up on all three lines: Line 1 has 6 values: |psmith01 abc| | "CLA... Putting a space before the first quote: "Smith, Jack","210-345-8888" It dismissed the quotes: Line 1 has 3 values: | "Smith| | Jack"| ... Add a new line in item two: "One", "Two ", "Three" Result: Line 1 has 2 values: |One| | "Two| ...

Some javap usage examples. Start from HelloWorld.java : @Deprecated public class HelloWorld { pu... javap -c HelloWorld outputs: Compiled from "HelloWorld.java" public class He... javap -v HelloWorld outputs ( -v for verbose mode): Compiled from "HelloWorld.java" public class He... The output consists of: " Compiled from... " header Class attributes. For the HelloWorld example, there are two: SourceFile and Deprecated . Minor and major class file version Constant pool Disassembled code LineNumberTable for debugging purposes. javap by default only prints package/protected/public members. To display all members including private, use the -p switch. javap -v -p HelloWorld

With StringBuffer/StringBuilder: public class ReverseString { private static... Without StringBuffer/StringBuilder: public class ReverseString { private static...

Java's built-in classes are way too complex/flexible for a simple protocol like HTTP. This is a wrapper to simplify HTTP GET and POST. import java.io.*; import java.net.*; imp... A simple test: import java.io.*; import java.util.*; ...

According to Java documentation: The Java compiler and other Java tools can only process files which contain Latin-1 and/or Unicode-encoded (\udddd notation) characters. This utility converts a utf-8 encoded file to ascii with unicode escape strings for non-ascii characters. import java.io.*; /** * Reads file in U... It is equivalent to: native2ascii -encoding utf-8 using the standard Java native2ascii utility.

This utility converts unicode escape strings in a file to UTF-8 encoded. Suppose you received a properties file with contents like: # @(#)codepoint_zh_CN.properties 1.4 05/09/27 #... You can use this utility to convert it to UTF-8 and view or edit. import java.io.*; /** * Reads file with... This utility is equivalent to: native2ascii -reverse -encoding utf-8 using the standard Java native2ascii utility.