Self proclaimed java newbie here .. I've done some research but I might
be going in the wrong direction on this on. I'm trying to build a
simple J2ME text file search that returns every LINE that contains a
STRING in a resource file text file. Problem is, apparently regex and
split are apparently not available in J2ME .. so I'm trying to do this
with StringBuffer .. Maybe there is a better way to do this??

=== code block

private String readHelpText()
   {
     InputStream is = getClass().getResourceAsStream("help.txt");
     String[] loadit = null;
       int chr = 0;
       try
     {
       StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
       // Read until the end of the stream
       while ((chr = is.read()) != -1)
          {
            sb.append((char) chr);
// below does not work
//           loadit[chr] = sb.charAt(chr);
// code I need might go here if I could get charAt to work?
//

         System.out.println(chr);  // this display a sequence of
numbers out of order???

        }

       return sb.toString();
     }
     catch (Exception e)
     {
       System.out.println("Unable to create stream ");
       System.out.println(chr);
     }
     return null;
   }
}
====

Thank you for any information or help.