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

If what you really need is a \n symbol you can use the advice from here:

${fn:replace(text, "
", "
")}

or

<%-- this is a new line --%>

This includes the new line in your string literal.