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

\n does not represent the newline character in an EL expression.

The solution which sets a pageContext attribute to the newline character and then uses it with JSTL's fn:replace function does work.

However, I prefer to use the Jakarta String Tab Library to solve this problem:

<%@ taglib prefix="str" uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/string-1.1" %>
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Text containing newlines

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You can use whatever you want for the newlineToken; "~n" is unlikely to show up in the text I'm doing the replacement on, so it was a reasonable choice for me.