Importing text file into database

Hi again,
Could anyone give me any pointers on how to take a text file or csv file (or any other delimeted text file) and read the contents into java and then use the read in data to then insert the delimeted data into the table.
i assume i have to read the delimeted data into a variable then parse the complete string with the delimeter and split the data up maybe in an array. Maybe this is completely wrong, im really unsure.
any help would be greatly appreciated even a point in the right direction would be great :)
kind regards.

Well, atleast i dont know of a single method, which does this kind of nonhomogenous task!! Its not hard to impliment what you want-->
//open the text file using FileInputStream & get the contents in a String variable
//Tokenise it
StringTokenizer st=new StringTokenizer(your_string_retrieved_from_file,delimiter);
int i=0;
while(st.hasMoreTokens())
i++;
//SQL Statement that inserts a string into database table(integer, varchar2)
insert into test_table values(i,st.nextToken());
Unless you are talking about putting the tokens as coloums in a single row, i dont find why this is a problem & if you are actually doing the above case, then you might wanna rethink your design

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