How to Iterate Through Values in Properties File in Java

Question

so I was wondering if anyone knew how I would go about reading in mutliple values from a key, delimiting them by commas and storing them to an arraylist from a properties file in java?

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I have a properties file with just this in it:

currentProposalsLocation = C:/Documents and Settings/Intern Project/Extracted Items
keywordsList = "A,B,C,D,E,F"

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And this is my code to load the properties file:

    static String proposalsDirectory;
    static ArrayList<String> keywordsList = new ArrayList<String>();
    private static final String PROP_FILE="C:/Documents and Settings/Intern Project/ipConfig.properties";

public static void readPropertiesFile()
{
     try
    {
         InputStream is = XMLTagParser.class.getResourceAsStream(PROP_FILE);
         Properties prop = new Properties();
         prop.load(is);
         proposalsDirectory = prop.getProperty("currentProposalsLocation");
         //?????What to do here????
         is.close();
    }
    catch(Exception e)
    {
         System.out.println("Failed to read from " + PROP_FILE + " file.");
    }
}

If anyone could help me out, I'd really appreciate it.

Answer 1

keywordsList.addAll(Arrays.asList(prop.getProperty("keywordsList").split(","));

Should work.