put data from txt into 2dim-array?

[cups]

Hey there,

still trying to get some data from text-file into an 2dim-array, but cannot get it to work.
well, maybe I can, but I just can't figure out how split-method exactly works.

What I've got so far:

import java.io.*;

public class Felder{
	public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception{

	String felder = "/afs/informatik.uni-goettingen.de/user/f/f.luethe/Downloads/felder.txt";
	FileReader freader = new FileReader(felder);
	BufferedReader breader = new BufferedReader(freader);
	String zeile;
	String[] array = new String[531];
	String[][] all;
	int i;
	
	for (i=0; (zeile = breader.readLine()) != null; i++) {
            array[i] = zeile;
				System.out.println(array[i]);
        }
        breader.close();


	
	}
}

my text-file looks like this:
...
541 TNFSF18 TNF family Q9UNG2 ENST00000404377
128 pancreatic polypeptide NPY family P01298 ENST00000225992
145 CGRP2 calcitonin family P10092 ENST00000396377
...

at the end of it, i want an 2dim array that looks like this:
all[0][0] = 541
all[0][1] = TNFSF18
...
all[0][4] = ENST00000404377
all[1][0] = 128
...
and so on

now, where it says "array[i] = zeile" the line after that I would split up the i-th line in "array",
but I don't know how to ..store it in the 2dim array.
May someone be able to explain?
The thing is: I know that split does as it says.. array.split("\t"); - splits it up where the tabs are.. this is what I want!
but what I do NOT know is, how it.. well how I can put it into the other array.
I hope I could explain well enough!?



EDIT:
I've uploaded the wrong - my old - code..
somehow got really confused and didn't even realize when I was commenting on it..
realized it now, though, when I tried to work through it again.
anyway this is the new one:

import java.io.*;
import java.lang.*;
import java.util.*;

public class Felder{
	public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception{

	String felder = "/afs/informatik.uni-goettingen.de/user/f/f.luethe/Downloads/felder.txt";
	FileReader freader = new FileReader(felder);
	BufferedReader breader = new BufferedReader(freader);
	String zeile;
	String[] array = new String[531];
	String array3;
	String[][] all = new String[array.length][5];
	int i;
	
	for (i=0; (zeile = breader.readLine()) != null; i++) {
            array[i] = zeile;
				array3 = Arrays.toString(array);
				String[] array2 = array3.split("\t");
				System.out.println(Arrays.toString(array2));
				//System.out.println(Arrays.toString(array2));
				//array.split("\t");
		//	for(int j=0; j<5; j++){
			//	all[i][j] = array2[i++];
				//	System.out.println(all[i][j]);
			//}
        }
        breader.close();


	
	}
}

It works out quite well, but still not entirely. If I do it this way, I'm only getting an array with "null" in every line and every column...
but when I print the arrays out in the first for-loop, it seems to be right. so the storing or saving or whatever it is in the 2dim array
doesn't work.
I didn't want to override the old - first posted - code, b/c maybe you can understand it better this way. hope that's okay.

[JosAH]

I'd put the result of each line.split( ... ) in a List<String[]>; when reading and splitting is done I'd create a two dimensional array from the List<String>.

kind regards,

Jos