Manipulating big blocks of text

Question

Is there a way of manipulating big blocks of text?

For example, I have a web site where users can write fictions. The String class is insufficient for storing chapters so someone found a workaround by mapping to a Blob. That's for persistence and in general I'm wondering if there are alternatives to using String arrays.

Answer 1

How about using StringBuffers.

Answer 2

Or StringBuilder, the unsynchronized but faster version of StringBuffer.