Reading a txt file and then storing it in a 2d array

This has got me completely stumped.

Part of a project I'm doing requires me to write a method that loads in a txt file that contains "-"s and "0"s that form a grid image.

An example of this is...

0---0---0-0--
--0-0-0-00---
-0-0--0---00-
0--00---0---0
------00---00
0--00-------0
-0---00-0----

Next i need to store this information into an ArrayList object two dimensional.
And it should be a 2d array of chars.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

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I'm just asking for assistance with one specific method in my big program that I have to do that has me completely stumped.

I've been trying for quite some time to solve this. All i know is that I have to use the BufferedReader and read in the txt file and then somehow put the data into a 2d array.

I'm clueless on how to do that -.- I would put some code if i knew.

maybe this code is used...???

public void load(String sourceName) {

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(sourceName));
Followed by code to put data into a 2d array? idk -.- haha