Reader in = new FileReader("path/to/file.csv");
Iterable<CSVRecord> records = CSVFormat.EXCEL.parse(in);
for (CSVRecord record : records) {
String lastName = record.get("Last Name");
String firstName = record.get("First Name");
}
To handle files that start with a Byte Order Mark (BOM) like some Excel CSV files, you need an extra step to deal with these optional bytes.
You can use the
BOMInputStream
class from Apache Commons IO for example:
final URL url = ...;
final Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(new BOMInputStream(url.openStream()), "UTF-8");
final CSVParser parser = new CSVParser(reader, CSVFormat.EXCEL.withHeader());
try {
for (final CSVRecord record : parser) {
final String string = record.get("SomeColumn");
...
}
} finally {
parser.close();
reader.close();
}