changing the key value separator in an ini file

Question

I have an ini file with || as the key value separator. I want to parse it using ini4j library but it is giving me an error (exception) whenever I run the code. I think that ini4j identifies only = and : as key-value separators. Is there any other way I could parse the file while using ini4j?

this is my example file

[header]
one||1
two||2

[section1] 
three||3
four||4
five||5
six||6

[section2]
seven||7
eight||8
nine||9

this is my example code

 public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    Ini ini=new Ini(new File("/home/esunmes/NetBeansProjects/ini4jexample/src/ini4jexample/newfile2.ini"));
    for(String str:ini.keySet())
    {System.out.println(str);
     Ini.Section section=ini.get(str);
     for(String key:section.keySet())
     {System.out.println("the key is : "+key);// TODO code application logic here
}

}

I also want to know the case :key||value1||value2

Answer 1

How about replacing your delimeter with the expected =?

    String inputPropties = "KEY1||VALUE1\nKEY2||VALUE2\nKEY3||VALUE3";
    inputPropties = inputPropties.replaceAll("\\|\\|","=");
    Properties properties = new Properties();
    properties.load(new StringReader(inputPropties));
    for( String key: properties.stringPropertyNames()) {
        System.out.println(key+" = "+properties.getProperty(key));
    }