hi all,

I have some problems to use Jexl expressions to look for special
characters in strings, like newline or tabs:

  e = ExpressionFactory.createExpression("foo.bar.indexOf('\n')");
  o = e.evaluate(jc);

there seem to be no way to encode the linebreak, I also tried '\\n' etc.
No chance, always get an exception.

Is this a bug in Jexl or is it my fault? Has anybody done this? How?
I would appreciate any help...

kind regards,
Christoph




P.S.: Here is my test programm:
import org.apache.commons.jexl.Expression;
import org.apache.commons.jexl.ExpressionFactory;
import org.apache.commons.jexl.JexlContext;
import org.apache.commons.jexl.JexlHelper;

public class TestJexlLinebreaks {
    public static class Foo {
        String bar = "This is line 1,\nline 2,\nline 3.";
        public String getBar() {
            return this.bar;
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        // First make a jexlContext and put stuff in it...
        JexlContext jc = JexlHelper.createContext();
        jc.getVars().put("foo", new Foo());
        jc.getVars().put("number", new Integer(10));

        // access a property...
        Expression e = ExpressionFactory.createExpression("foo.bar");
        Object o = e.evaluate(jc);
        System.out.println("Return foo.bar: " + o);

        // try to search for newline...
        e = ExpressionFactory.createExpression("foo.bar.indexOf('\n')");
        o = e.evaluate(jc);
        System.out.println("Return foo.bar.indexOf('\\n'): " + o);
    }
}

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