Replacing Line Breaks with BR tags

[steve0710]

I'm new to JSP. I have a field defined as a Text field. The field contains line breaks in it. I am printing this field to the screen and would like to replace the line breaks with HTML BR tags. Could someone help me with the code for this?

I know how to do this in ASP, but haven't been able to figure out how to do it in JSP.

Thanks,
Steve

 

[cwinans]

I'm not really quite sure but try this methodology.

Try replacing &quot;\n&quot; with &quot;<BR>&quot;

As far as String documentation goes, visit this site for the Java API documentation.


String resides in the &quot;java.lang&quot; package.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/index.html

I hope this helped! ;-)
- Casey Winans

 

[Kyuss]

you can use this code:

public String replace (String str, String pattern, String replace) {
int s = 0;
int e = 0;
StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();

while ((e = str.indexOf(pattern, s)) >= 0) {
result.append(str.substring(s, e));
result.append(replace);
s = e+pattern.length();
}
result.append(str.substring(s));
return result.toString();
}

compile it into your *.class file, say replace.java -> replace.class

place it into whatever package you use eg. package.replace

in your jsp page:

<jsp:useBean id=&quot;rep&quot; scope=&quot;request&quot; class=&quot;package.replace&quot; />

String blah=&quot;blah\nblah&quot;;

blah=rep.replace(blah,&quot;\n&quot;,&quot;<br>&quot;

now blah should contain &quot;blah<br>blah&quot;

hope that helps and the circus leaves town...