11. BufferedReader, reading delimited text file

• Code that reads a Book object from a delimited text file

  
      // implements buffered reading from a character stream
      BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
                          // implements reading character files
                          new FileReader("books.txt"));
      // read the next line of the file
      String line = in.readLine();
  
      // parse the line into its columns
      String[] columns = line.split("\t");
      String code = columns[0];
      String description = columns[1];
      String price = columns[2];
  
      // create a book object from the data in the columns
      Book p = new Book(
          code, description, Double.parseDouble(price));
  
      // print the Book object
      System.out.println(p);
  
      // close the input stream
      in.close();
  
  

• Sample output for code that reads a Book object from a delimited text file

  
      Code:        book
      Description: Beginning Java Programming
      Price:       $49.50