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Makes sense to do it what you find to be the easiest way.

I'm sure there are many different ways to scan through the characters coming from a file.
readLine gives you a String and skips over the end of line characters.
read() would give you a single...

I don't know how you get at the data in the BufferedReader's buffer without calling a read method which removes the data from the buffer. One of the constructors allows you to specify the size of...

You can do some buffering yourself. Just like the getToken method will move thru a String that you have read token by token, you can call the BufferedReader methods to get the next line when the...

That sounds like a reasonable approach.
The String class has methods for looking at the contents of a String and for extracting parts of the String.

Do you mean you want to use the file I/O to move around in the text on disk vs reading the text into a buffer/array/String and moving around in the text in memory?