Removing all empty elements from an character array

Question

I have a character array that can hold maximum 50000 characters at a time. Contents of this array are coming through socket connections. However it is not guaranteed that th

Answer 1

StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
IOUtils.copy(inputStream, writer, encoding);
String theString = writer.toString();

OR

String theString = IOUtils.toString(inputStream, "UTF-8");