Hi,
this comes to mind but is probably not the correct
way!
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer( s, "\n" );
String ss = "";
while( st.hasMoreTokens() ) {
ss += st.nextToken() + "<br>";
}
something like that, then show ss in the jsp.
ron
--- david chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a JSP that retrive a string from database,
> the string may contain
> anykind of char. The problem is that when I assign
> the string to a variable
> in javascirpt then send this javascript code to
> browser, some special char.
> in the javascript will cause problem, i.e. the new
> line char. will cause the
> javascript variable broken.
> I can't use URLencode in here because I don't want
> to show the encoded
> string as plain text on browser. what i want is to
> have a mapping from char.
> to HTML sytax, i.e. new line will map to <br>.
> Does anyone have sample code for this ?
> Thanks.
> David
>
>
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