Read CSV As Map 

Super CSV is a free library for reading and writing CSV files in Java. We need to have SuperCSV-1.52.jar, spiffy-0.05.jar or later versions in classpath. The following example shows reading a CSV as a map using Super CSV. The CSV header name is used as key and column data as value.

File Name  :   com/bethecoder/tutorials/super_csv/tests/ReadCSVAsMap.java  Author  :   Sudhakar KV Email  :   [email protected]

package com.bethecoder.tutorials.super_csv.tests; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.StringReader; import java.util.Map; import org.supercsv.io.CsvMapReader; import org.supercsv.prefs.CsvPreference; public class ReadCSVAsMap {   /**    * @param args    * @throws IOException     */   public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {     String CSV =        "name,age,hobby\n" +       "Sriram,2,Chess\n" +       "Sudhakar,29,Painting";          CsvMapReader csvReader = new CsvMapReader(         new StringReader(CSV),         CsvPreference.STANDARD_PREFERENCE);          //Read headers     String [] headers = csvReader.getCSVHeader(true);     Map<String, String> row = null;          while ((row = csvReader.read(headers)) != null) {       System.out.println(row);     }   } }

{age=2, name=Sriram, hobby=Chess}
{age=29, name=Sudhakar, hobby=Painting}