ok ill start off showing my code

//reads city and parses
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("miles.dat"));
String city = in.readLine();



// read all the words from the file
System.out.println( "Reading miles.dat..." );
System.out.println();

while( (city = in.readLine()) != null )
{

if(city.startsWith("*") != true) //skip comments
{
if(city.contains(",") == true) //finding words with ","
{


String[] result = (city).split("," + " ");

for (int x=0; x<result.length; x++)
{

System.out.println(result[x]);
}



}

}

}
in.close(); //in closed

what i want to do is split the city string (what i read from the .dat file) at these location s
"," and " " and "[" and "]"
however i cant split it at
"[" or "]"
(because i get an error)

can i replace all the "[" and "]" characters to "," and just split it at the "," or is their an easier way

(the miles.dat file that i am reading from is located at...

http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~sriram/21/fall07/miles.dat

if your looking at the .dat file i essentially want this
1st line: Youngstown
2nd line: OH
3rd line: [4110,8065]
4th Line: 115436
and so on with the next city