JSP Session removes new lines from textarea

[nationavon]

I am placing the contents of a textarea into a JSP session attribute. When I print the value of the Attribute the new lines are gone. It's like JSP is removing the formatting. Any ideas or tips would be appreciated.

Nathan

 

[prosper]

Before saving the text of textarea into JSP session attribute, replace the newline character by a sign you will not use in textarea.
Before display the text on textarea, replace the sign by newline
here is the code in jsp, it is a better habbit that you put it in javabean

<%@ page import=&quot;java.util.regex.*&quot;%>

<%
Pattern p = Pattern.compile(&quot;\n&quot;
Matcher m = p.matcher(&quot;hello\nhello\nhello\nhello&quot;
boolean result = m.find();
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
while(result) {
m.appendReplacement(sb, &quot;@&quot;
result = m.find();
}
m.appendTail(sb);
out.println(sb.toString());

%>

 

[prosper]

I copy from

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/releases/1.4regex/