Hi i wrote one own class and a mehtod for your problem . Take it use the method in awt program.


/********class :splitString***********/
/********Author:Rajjan.j.s************/
/********Date  :29-03-2001************/

class splitString{
public static void main(String []a)
{
 	String ar="hi  i am a user";
        System.out.println(" "+ar);

        System.out.println(" "+methodSplitString(ar,3,5));   // call the method here       

}

  /******** this is the method which will return the string from the given starting index
            and the total number of characters                           **********************/

 
public static String methodSplitString(String iniString,int startIndex , int totalChar)
{
          
         //int len=iniString.length;
        String finalString="";

        iniString=iniString+1; // make the first char at '1' because String index start from zero 
          
       /* trims the blank spaces before the starting index position  */

        while( iniString.charAt(startIndex) != ' ')
          {
                   startIndex++;
          }
        
        int i=startIndex;  
        int j=0;

          /*   extraction will be done here */

        while(j!=totalChar)
                {    
                      
               
                     if(iniString.charAt(i) == ' ') 
                           {
                                // nothing             //  totalChar++;
                           }
                     else{
		          finalString+=""+iniString.charAt(i);                        	
                          j++;
                
                          } 
                      i++;
                }
        return finalString;
 

}

}