Read words from text file by delimiter as columns and rows

Hi All,
I need your help as i have a problem with reading string by delimiter. i have used various tech in java, but i can not get the result as expected.
Please help me to get the string from text file and write into excel . i have used a text file.
problem
get the below as string by delimiter
OI.ID||'|'||OI.IDSIEBEL||'|'||OI.IDTGU||'|'||OI.WORKTYPE||'|'||OI.UTR_FK
read the below as string by delimiter
"50381|TEST_7.15.2.2|09913043548|Attivazione|07-SEP-10
now i need to write the above into excel file as columns and rows.
there are 5 columns and each corresponding values
the outut excel should be
OI.ID OI.IDSIEBEL OI.IDSIEBEL OI.WORKTYPE OI.UTR_FK
50381 TEST_7.15.2.2 09913043548 Attivazione 07-SEP-10
i tried in diffrerent techinq but not able to get the resule. pls help me
Thanks,
Jasmin
Edited by: user13836688 on Jan 22, 2011 8:13 PM

First of all, when posting code, put it between two tags.
Second of all, the pipe is a special character in regex, so you need to escape it as
.split("\ \|");
Erh. So 2 backslashes before the pipe character. Stupid forum won't post it.
Edited by: Kayaman on Jan 24, 2011 9:35 AM
Edited by: Kayaman on Jan 24, 2011 9:35 AM
Edited by: Kayaman on Jan 24, 2011 9:36 AM

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