I get an error while reading a large CSV file in java. How can I deal with this problem. I increased the heap size, I also tried using BufferedReader, but the same problem still persists. Here is my code
public class CsvParser {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
FileReader fr = new FileReader((args.length > 0) ? args[0] : "data.csv");
Map<String, List<String>> values = parseCsv(fr, " ", true);
System.out.println(values);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public static Map<String, List<String>> parseCsv(Reader reader, String separator, boolean hasHeader)
throws IOException {
Map<String, List<String>> values = new LinkedHashMap<String, List<String>>();
List<String> columnNames = new LinkedList<String>();
BufferedReader br = null;
br = new BufferedReader(reader);
String line;
int numLines = 0;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(line)) {
if (!line.startsWith("#")) {
String[] tokens = line.split(separator);
if (tokens != null) {
for (int i = 0; i < tokens.length; ++i) {
if (numLines == 0) {
columnNames.add(hasHeader ? tokens[i] : ("row_" + i));
} else {
List<String> column = values.get(columnNames.get(i));
if (column == null) {
column = new LinkedList<String>();
}
column.add(tokens[i]);
values.put(columnNames.get(i), column);
}
}
}
++numLines;
}
}
}
return values;
}
}
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