Converting separate lines of JTextArea to LinkedList Node

Question

I have a JTextArea where user can input text in multiple lines. When the user click a button, I would like to convert each line in the JTextArea into a node of LinkedList. For example, if the JTextArea has 5 lines of text, then the LinkedList should have 5 nodes where each node represents the string of each line.
I do not have problem with LinkedList. The problems I'm having is I do not know what reader should I use and how validate that it is a new line.
Here's what I have which is definately incorrect.
     public void changeTextToNode( String text )
          String text = textArea.getText();
          try
               StringReader reader = new StringReader( text );
               BufferedReader reader2 = new BufferedReader( reader );
               StringBuffer strBuf = new StringBuffer();
               while( // validate it's a new line and not end of stream )
                               LineNode ln = new LineNode( // String of a single line );
          catch( Exception e )
          }     Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

Yes, I would like to split on \n. How can I checkwhen it's a
new line (\n)? Thanks for helping out.I have a couple of questions about this:
1) When a JTextArea wraps to the next line does it
automatically insert a newline?probably not, thats why it might be best to split on \n and also keep a char counter, and split when it becomes greater then the length of the textarea