Get ID and RSSI value from log file (Help me !)

[motress]

TYPE=WIFI|TIME=1263867778390|ID=00:24:c3:31:2b:e0|NAME=csusm|RSSI=-93|WEP=true|INFR=true
TYPE=WIFI|TIME=1263867778390|ID=00:12:17:7b:33:04|NAME=csusm|RSSI=-80|WEP=true|INFR=true
TYPE=WIFI|TIME=1263867778390|ID=00:1f:27:55:f7:70|NAME=USMHotspot|RSSI=-70|WEP=true|INFR=true
TYPE=WIFI|TIME=1263867778390|ID=00:1e:13:ee:3e:40|NAME=USMHotspot|RSSI=-85|WEP=true|INFR=true
TYPE=WIFI|TIME=1263867778390|ID=00:24:c3:31:b8:80|NAME=csusm|RSSI=-91|WEP=true|INFR=true
TYPE=WIFI|TIME=1263867778390|ID=00:90:4c:60:04:02|NAME=csusm|RSSI=-94|WEP=true|INFR=true
TYPE=WIFI|TIME=1263867778390|ID=00:1b:0d:d6:6d:50|NAME=USMHotspot|RSSI=-70|WEP=true|INFR=true

The above is a part of my log file.
The problem i faced is how to just get ID with its particular RSSI value ?
Because i want to calculate the average RSSI value for each different ID .
I tried split.string, delimiter, regular expression but i became blur after this. I don know what is the best way to do this !
Im new in Java, so kindly help me.... Thank .!

[BestJewSinceJC]

Both the String class's split method and regular expressions would be good solutions for this problem. Using the split method and splitting on "[|]" would probably be easier though. The reason you would have to split on [|] and not on | is as follows: (quoted from s.o.s's post in another thread):

| has a special meaning when it comes to regular expressions, it's called the alternation symbol.

If you have something like "##|##|##".split("|") , it's the same as "##|##|##".split("") since a single pipe symbol is the same as saying "alternate between a blank string and another blank string" which is the same as a blank string.

You can either:

• Escape this pipe character and tell the regex engine to treat is at a literal pipe character. Something like "string".split("\\|")
• Use character classes, similar to the example posted above (i.e. [|] )

Anyway, I'm assuming that before you did that, you would read each line of text into a separate String using Scanner's nextLine() method, so that split([|]) would give you an array of 7 elements per line. Then you could simply tell it to give you array[2] (your ID number) and array[4] (the corresponding RSSI)