append part of java byte array to StringBuilder

Question

How do I append a portion of byte array to a StringBuilder object under Java? I have a segment of a function that reads from an InputStream into a byte array. I then want to a

Answer 1

Something like below should do the trick for you.

byte[] buffer = new byte[3];
buffer[0] = 'a';
buffer[1] = 'b';
buffer[2] = 'c';
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(new String(buffer,0,buffer.length-1));
System.out.println("buffer has:"+sb.toString()); //prints ab