Get a single line from a String Buffer

[Peter Shipway]

How do i get a single line from a string buffer that has already been created?

[Stefan Wagner]

How do you know the Stringbuffer contains lines at all?
If your buffer looks like this:

text1[B]NL[/B]text2[B]NL[/B]text3

text2 seems to be a line, but text1 and text3 could be a part of a line.
For a buffer containing no NewLine at all, would you say the whole buffer is a line on it's own?

text1

So do we have three lines here?:

[B]NL[/B][B]NL[/B]

[Joe Ess]

You can read a line from a StringBuffer using Readers:

String aLine = new BufferedReader(new StringReader(strbuffer.toString())).readLine();

[Mike Gershman]

That gets you the first line.

You may need to create the BufferedReader as shown and then call readLine() on it until you get the line you want.