Loading the Contents of a file into a JTable

Question

I am trying to load the content of a delimited (tab, comma, etc), into a JTable. The code is very simple and works for the most part. Here is some of it:
               List tableRows = new ArrayList();
               String lineItem = "";
               InputStream in = new FileInputStream(fName);
               InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(in);               
          BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
     while((lineItem = br.readLine()) != null)
                    if(x == MAX)
                         break;
                    java.util.List rowData = new ArrayList();
                    StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(lineItem, "\t");
                    while(st.hasMoreElements())
                         rowData.add(st.nextToken());
                    tableRows.add(rowData);     
                    x++;
Basically, tableRows, ends up to be a List of Lists which I later use to populate the Object[][] for the JTable rows. This works perfect!
My problem has to do with the tokenizer. In some situations, values in a line that is read contains "". For example an line read (quotes are showed only to distinquish values in the line):
"item1", "item2", " ", "item4", " ", "item6", "item7"
The tokenizer does not capture the " ". So instead of 7 tokens, it only sees 5.
My question is, can someone tell me a better approach for tokenizing the string so that it captures everything?
Thanks in advance,
Augustine

Answer 1

I am trying to load the content of a delimited (tab, comma, etc), into a JTable. The code is very simple and works for the most part. Here is some of it:
               List tableRows = new ArrayList();
               String lineItem = "";
               InputStream in = new FileInputStream(fName);
               InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(in);               
          BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
     while((lineItem = br.readLine()) != null)
                    if(x == MAX)
                         break;
                    java.util.List rowData = new ArrayList();
                    StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(lineItem, "\t");
                    while(st.hasMoreElements())
                         rowData.add(st.nextToken());
                    tableRows.add(rowData);     
                    x++;
Basically, tableRows, ends up to be a List of Lists which I later use to populate the Object[][] for the JTable rows. This works perfect!
My problem has to do with the tokenizer. In some situations, values in a line that is read contains "". For example an line read (quotes are showed only to distinquish values in the line):
"item1", "item2", " ", "item4", " ", "item6", "item7"
The tokenizer does not capture the " ". So instead of 7 tokens, it only sees 5.
My question is, can someone tell me a better approach for tokenizing the string so that it captures everything?
Thanks in advance,
Augustine