How can I know how many characters are available in a BufferedReader?

From: metfan (qjzhupublic_at___NoSpam__yahoo.ie)
Date: 10/26/03


Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 21:35:36 +0800


   A BufferedReader has a method ready() to tell you if there're
   datum available in a BufferedReader, but how can I know how many
   characters are available now so that I can create a char[] to
   hold them?