Parsing Text Files in Java

The following code is designed to parse (comma, tab, etc.) delimited files in Java.

private static ArrayList parseDelimitedFile(String filePath, String delimiter) throws Exception
{
  ArrayList rows = new ArrayList();

  FileReader fr = new FileReader(filePath);
  BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);

  String currentRecord;
  while((currentRecord = br.readLine()) != null)
    rows.add(currentRecord.split(delimiter));

  br.close();

  return rows;
}