How To Perform Row Operation - Store Data Into 2D Matrix

I am able to perform column operation but not able to perform row operation because i am not able to store data say a 2 matrix [][]. I need to store the data into a 2-D matrix. Here is my code:

Java Code:

import java.awt.List;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class colRowRead {

[Code] ....

I tried something like that:

for(int i=0; i<rows; i++) {
for(int j=0; j<cols; j++){
matrix [i][j]=textFile.get(i).split(" ");
//System.out.println(matrix[i][j]);
}
}
*/ mh_sh_highlight_all('java');

File col.txt is like this:

Java Code:
5 9 7 1 5
3 6 8 6 8
4 6 7 8 9
9 8 3 5 7 mh_sh_highlight_all('java');