Deleting and Storing Text | STRINGBUFFER

hey all,

Basically what I want to do is make a "cut" function. I already made the code here…

	StringBuffer saveStringBuff;
	int saveStartPosition;
	int saveEndPosition;
	boolean undoable;
	


public Cut(StringBuffer strbuff, int start, int end)
	{
		saveStringBuff = strbuff;
		saveStartPosition = start;
		saveEndPosition = end;
		undoable = false;
		
		//clip.getCopyOfString();
		//StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer(null);
	}

	@Override
	public void execute() {
		saveStringBuff.delete(saveStartPosition, saveEndPosition);
		ClipBoard clip = ClipBoard.getInstance();
		clip.loadString(saveStringBuff.toString());
		undoable = true;
	}```

When I call this cut method, it takes in a buffer like "HelloWorld", and will delete from lets say 0 to 5. This will leave left over "World" ... Now, what I am trying to do is store the "Hello" into a separate place for use later. 

What I am struggling with is storing the "Hello", I can obviously very easily store "World", but I very much need to store "Hello" instead.

Any help is MUCH appreciated, I can't figure this out. Thank you!

I've just begun learning to program so I can't give you any code, but I'm pretty sure you can save the words that are to be deleted as a string just before they are deleted. Here is a representation in pseudo code seeing as how I don't know the actual commands.

string1="Hello"
remove "Hello"

This would them allow you to reuse the string later, kinda like Microsoft Clipboard. If I am wrong, I apologize, but tI believe myself to be theoretically correct.

EDIT: After reviewing the code, I came up with a new, possibly correct, pseudo code.

}

@Override
public void execute() {
string1 = saveStringBuff(saveStartPosition, saveEndPosition);
saveStringBuff.delete(saveStartPosition, saveEndPosition);
ClipBoard clip = ClipBoard.getInstance();
clip.loadString(saveStringBuff.toString());
undoable = true;
}

Thanks for the help! Unfortunately you cannot use the buffer the way you indicated (as far as I know).

I did some research on the buffer class and realized that there is actually a substring function that can be used to snag a copy of the text from the indicated start to end positions.

Thanks again all for any help you gave! I appreciate it :)