hey, i have a quick question about strings im using the stringbuffer class to store letters in a string, i was wondering if there was an easy way to distinguish parts of the string say if i have StringBuffer a and i add the words "one" then "two" a would contain "onetwo" my question is if i wanted to extract that one two, how could i extract them without doing it character by character(because i wouldnt know where the end of the word was) My solution was to add a ',' between each one i putting in i.e. "one,two" but i dont know if this is the most efficent way, thanks for your help in advance.

I think your on the right track with using the delimiter. You can then use the StingTokenizer class if your using Java prior to 1.4 or String.split() if your using Java 1.4.x. See API documentation; http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/StringTokenizer.html http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#split(java.lang.String) For example; StringBuffer mySB = new StringBuffer("one,two,three"); String myStr = mSB.toSting(); String[] words = myStr.split(","); for (int i=0; i < words.length; i++){ System.out.println(words[i]); }