Get and Parse CSV file in android

Question

I'm trying to get a csv file from http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=msft&f=sl1p2 then parse it so that I can get the price and the price changed into an object that sets both properties. Is there a way that I can do this with the android libraries?

Edit: Here's the current state of the union (not working):

HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();         HttpContext localContext = new BasicHttpContext();         HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(uri);         HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpGet, localContext);         String result = "";          BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent()));          String line = null;         while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null){               result += line + "\n";               String[] RowData = result.split("\n");               String name = RowData[0];               String price = RowData[1];               String change = RowData[2];                stock.setPrice(Double.parseDouble(price));               stock.setTicker(name);               stock.setChange(change);             } 

Answer 1

Try something like this:

    //--- Suppose you have input stream `is` of your csv file then:      BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));     try {         String line;         while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {              String[] RowData = line.split(",");              date = RowData[0];              value = RowData[1];             // do something with "data" and "value"         }     }     catch (IOException ex) {         // handle exception     }     finally {         try {             is.close();         }         catch (IOException e) {             // handle exception         }     } 

Hope this helps.