you can use a regular expression to do this quickly and easily.
i use regexp from GNU (http://www.gnu.org). i think sun and IBM also
may have regular expression packages.
-steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 3:10 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Replace a character (or group of characters)?
Ken:
String.replace( '~', x ), where x is the char value for new line (\n), may
work, but it only replaces char occurrences within a String. I prefer
another route...
Something like this may prove more useful:
String s = "This~is~a test of~parsing text" ;
String sOld = "~" ;
String sNew = "\n" ;
int itmp = -1 ;
while ( ( itmp = s.indexOf( sOld ) ) >= 0 )
s = s.substring( 0, itmp) + sNew + s.substring( itmp +
sOld.length() ) ;
Hope this helps.
Phil Campbell
p.s.: Are you building a parser? if so, we may have parser utility class
that may help -- email me.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 12:51 PM
Subject: Replace a character (or group of characters)?
>Is there a way to take a string of text like:
>
>This~is~a test of~parsing text
>
>...and replace each tilde with a line break?
>
>So I get...
>
>This
>is
>a test of
>parsing text
>
>TIA from a newbie who will be buying "Core Servlets..." soon.
>
>Ken Martin
>
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