Java tutorial
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; import java.io.IOException; class ByteArrayInputStreamDemo { public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException { String tmp = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; byte b[] = tmp.getBytes(); ByteArrayInputStream input1 = new ByteArrayInputStream(b); ByteArrayInputStream input2 = new ByteArrayInputStream(b, 0, 3); } }