How can I replace newline characters using JSP and JSTL?

Question

I have a list of bean objects passed into my JSP page, and one of them is a comment field. This field may contain newlines, and I want to replace them with semicolons using

Answer 1

This does not work for me:

${fn:replace(data, newLine, "; ")}

This does:

<% pageContext.setAttribute("newLineChar", "\n"); %> 
${fn:replace(item.comments, newLineChar, "; ")}