How to to scan a string, char by char?

Question

Hi i have some xml data, i want to scan the string char until it sees > for the first time. Then it adds the following data until it sees <, at which point it stops. So i should get s2tidm1 from "<server>s2tidm1</server>"
The problem with the below code is that sa.next() gives me the whole string as there is no space, is there a sa.nextChar() or something similar?
Code following -- Thanks Peter
import java.io.*;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.*;
public class xmltestmod {
static String data =  "<server>s2tidm1</server>";
    public static void main(String args[]) {
          Scanner sa = new Scanner(data);
          String pete = " ";
          String temp =" ";
          while (sa.hasNext())          {
               temp = sa.next();
               System.out.println(temp);
               if (temp.contains(">")){
                    while (true){
                    System.out.println("Entering if");
                    temp = sa.next();
                    pete = pete + temp;
                         if(temp.contains("<")) break;
     System.out.println(pete);               
     sa.close();
}

Answer 1

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I got muiltiple xml lines in a array, i want to loop
the array and strip out the tags so only the data is
left. Thats why i didn't use the xml apis out there
as you need to say starttag = "<Server>";, endtag =
"/Server>", but i just want to say store all data
inbetween < and >, that way i can loop through the
whole array.
Actually if you use the SAX parser, rather than the DOM parser, it will call a method of your chosing for each text element, and you can just ignore the callbacks for tags etc. if you wish.
Can you explain abit more about hte substring and
index of part please.Check the Javadocs. Substring chops part of a string out, indexOf finds the first occurance of a character.