data.txt

hello;there;senor
how
are
you;today

test.class

/*
 * Example opening and reading a text file in Java using:
 * File, Scanner, StringTokenizer
 * 
 */

import java.io.*;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

class test {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    
    String fName = "data.txt";
    
    try{
      File f = new File(fName);
      Scanner s = new Scanner( f );
      String delim = ";"; // space delimiterized
      String sentence = ""; //each sentence
      String word = ""; //each word of a sentence
      
      while( s.hasNext() == true) {
        sentence = s.next();
        StringTokenizer tok = new StringTokenizer(sentence, delim);
        
        while (tok.hasMoreTokens() == true) {
          word = tok.nextToken();
          
          System.out.println("word: " + word);
        }
      }
    } catch (FileNotFoundException fnfe) {
      System.out.println("ERROR: File '" + fName + "'!");
    }
    
  }
}