passing strings with (" and ')

[riches85]

I have a form that takes a persons height and passes it to another jsp that pulls the height from the request object and uses it to make an entry into the database. Now whenever someone enters 6'2" etc I get a null pointer exception. I know it has to do with the quotations, but i have no idea how to avoid having the user input 6\'\". Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks

 

[palbano]

Remove or replace (escape) them from the parameter string before using it to update the database. The Regular Expressions API would be great for that solution.

-pete