Problem getting data from towny .txt file

Hey, I'm making a drop plugin based on groups made by towny and therefor I need to get the data from the playername+".txt" file. However when I use this code:

Code:

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        YamlConfiguration PlayerConfig = YamlConfiguration.loadConfiguration(new File(playerfolder,playername+".txt"));
     
        if(PlayerConfig.get("town=") != null){
            player.sendMessage(ChatColor.RED + "Reached code2.");
        String townname = PlayerConfig.getString("town=");
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It gives me an error at the first line:

Here's the .txt file btw:

Can anyone help out?

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

its a .txt file not a .yml file.
therefore you are going to have to parse it yourself.

 

How should I go about that?

 

read the file line by line, and replace '=' with ': '

 

Alright I checked in on how to parse files, and I know how to use .split() however I'm unsure about how to replace certain characters to get a nice hashmap as a result.

 

As it contains only one level, you can split each line on '='

Code:java

String[] kv = line.split("=");

You could just dump this into a HashMap

Code:java

// The HashMap
public HashMap<String, String> values = new HashMap<String, String>();
// How you store:
values.put(kv[0], kv[1]);