Trying to read the contents of a file into an array, but the contents are separated by a colon

Inside my file is the two-letter abbreviation of each state followed by the full name of the state, and each state abbreviation and name is separated by a colon.

Like this:

al:Alabama

ak:Alaska

I need to read this into an array of 52×2 and I am not sure how to do that. The code I have now just reads each line from the file into the array without separating the abbreviation and name.

String[][] states = new String[52][2];

while (input2.hasNext()) {
    for (int row = 0; row < states.length; row++) {
        for (int column = 0; column < states[row].length; column++) {
            states[row][column] = input2.next();
            System.out.printf("%s%n", states[row][column]);
        }
    }
}

>Solution :

You can try below code(Comments inline):

String[][] states = new String[52][2];

int row = 0;

while (input2.hasNext()) {
    
    // Read whole line from the file
    String line = input2.nextLine();
    
    // Split string into tokens with : character.
    // It means, Line: al:Alabama is converted to
    // ["al", "Alabama"] in tokens
    String tokens[] = line.split(":");
    
    // Store first token in first column and similarly for second.
    states[row][0] = tokens[0];
    states[row][1] = tokens[1];
    
    row++;
}