How can I use StringBuffer in this case...

[Hemal Mehta]

DataInputStream dis = null;
String textRecord = null;
try {
File f = new File("e:\\staging");
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(f);
BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(fis);
dis = new DataInputStream(bis);
// read the first record of the database
while ( (textRecord = dis.readLine()) != null) {

}
I want to use StringBuffer instaed of sString to
read the above values from eachh line. How can I do that as readLine returns a String.

[Corey McGlone]

Simple - just use the String that is returned by readLine as an argument to the append method of StringBuffer, like this:

StringBuffer buff = new StringBuffer();
while ( (textRecord = dis.readLine()) != null )
{
   buff.append(textRecord);
}

Hope that helps,
Corey