Problems with readLine()

I am using readLine() to read a file into an array, and when i print the line there are now "?" characters in place of some of the spaces(not all of them). i tried using string.replaceAll("\\?"," ") to fix the problem but it seems that the ? in the line is not actually a question mark character, as the regex does not "see" it at all. I also need to search the array for certain words, and at this point even putting the "?" in comes up without a match:

if("Simple\\?test".equals(string))

{

return i;

}

I will post the rest of the code and system output if that explanation wasn't clear enough. Thanks in advance.

[659 byte] By [coondoggie82a] at [2007-11-27 10:59:50]