Reading through a vCard in Java

Question

Lets say I have a vCard text file and I want to get the persons phone number, email address and full name. Whats an easy way to do that without manually skipping text with a scanner or going readLine with a bufferedReader?

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
TEL;PREF;WORK;VOICE;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:(+64 9) 373-7599=20
N:Vaughan;Tim;;Dr;
FN:Dr Tim  Vaughan
ADR;WORK;;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:;Building 303S Room 367;;Auckland;;Private Bag 92019 Auckland;New Zealand
TITLE:Research Fellow
EMAIL;INTERNET:xxx@gmail.com
ORG:University of Auckland;Department of Computer Science
URL;WORK:
REV:2013-09-12T15:06:11Z
END:VCARD

`BufferedReader` and `readline` if you want to do it yourself or a [`VCard`](https://code.google.com/p/ez-vcard/) library if you don't... — MadProgrammer, Sep 12 '13 at 03:11
You could use an existing library: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/672704/where-to-find-a-java-library-to-read-vcard-files — , Sep 12 '13 at 03:25

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 04 '15 at 04:15

You can use an external library like ez-vcard. And then access the as VCard elements below

FileInputStream fin = ...;
    Vcard contacts = Ezvcard.parse(fin).all();
    for(VCard myCard : contacts){
        System.out.println("Contact In the Phonebook \n" + "\t"
                + myCard.getFormattedName().getValue()
                + "\n\t" + myCard.getEmails().get(0).getValue()
                + "\n\t" + myCard.getTelephoneNumbers().get(0).getText());
    }

Reading through a vCard in Java

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