Conversion from txt to csv

Question

Hi,
As a part of our project we are generating a text file containing the query output, it is in the following format..
| contributor | x | url |
===========================================================================
| _:b0 | "Norm Walsh" | <http://norman.walsh.name/> |
| _:b1 | "Ebiquity research group UMBC" | <http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/v2.1/blogger/> |
| _:b2 | "Orri Erling" | <http://www.openlinksw.com/weblogs/oerling/> |
| _:b3 | "John Breslin" | <http://www.johnbreslin.com/blog/> |
We need to convert this into csv file. We have tried writing a java code for this, but are facing a problem there as it is considering each space as a newline and also all the rows are not coming in a new line.
We are running all the codes on eclipse platform.
Relevant codes are:
          FileReader reader = new FileReader("C:\\track1.txt");
          Scanner dumpfile = new Scanner(reader);
     PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter("C:\\output.txt");
               while (dumpfile.hasNext())
                    out.print((dumpfile.next().replace("|",",").replace('-', ' ').replace('=', ' ')));
and
FileReader reader1 = new FileReader("C:\\output.txt");
     Scanner dumpfile1 = new Scanner(reader1);
     PrintWriter out1= new PrintWriter("C:\\csvfile.txt");
     while (dumpfile1.hasNext())
          out1.println(dumpfile1.next().replace(",,","     "));
Can anyone give us a solution ..pls
Regards,

Answer 1

We want the output in the following format(csv format):
contributor , x , url
_:b0 , "Ivan Herman",<http://ivanherman.wordpress.com/tag/work-related/semantic-web/>
_:b1 , "Dave Beckett",<http://journal.dajobe.org/journal/>
_:b2,"Uldis Bojars", <http://captsolo.net/info/>
_:b3, "Peter Mika",<http://tripletalk.wordpress.com/>
We have made a few changes to the code now.We added the following code snippet:
                  FileReader reader1 = new FileReader("C:\\output.txt");
                   Scanner dumpfile1 = new Scanner(reader1);
                  PrintWriter out1= new PrintWriter("C:\\csvfile.txt");
                  while (dumpfile1.hasNext())
                      out1.println(dumpfile1.next().replace(",,","\n"));
                  }but now for the 1st 2 rows the colomns are shifted to the right by 1 cell. The output is as follows in excel:
     contributor     x     url
     _:b0     OraLassila     <http://www.lassila.org/blog/>
_:b1     LeighDodds <http://xmlarmyknife.org/blog/>     
_:b2     KingsleyIdehen <http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/>     
_:b3     LeighDodds <http://ldodds.com/blog/>
In csv it is as follows:
,contributor,x,url,
,_:b0,"IvanHerman",<http://ivanherman.wordpress.com/tag/workrelated/semanticweb/>
_:b1,"DaveBeckett",<http://journal.dajobe.org/journal/>
_:b2,"UldisBojars",<http://captsolo.net/info/>
_:b3,"PeterMika",<http://tripletalk.wordpress.com/>     
Comma at the beginning in the first two lines must be removed using java code. If anyone could help me out with this, it will be very helpful for me.
Regards