First of all,
you should take a look at
this tutorial about Strings and StringBuffers. This should give you a good introduction to the tools available to solve this task. You should also familiarize yourself with the
Java API docs. This will give you a handy reference to the classes and methods available from the standard Java API. It is certainly worth your time to learn how to navigate this. For now, you should start by finding the classes in the java.lang package since that is where
String and StringBuffer are located.
Layne