Shawn,
So is there a way to extract a sub string from the result of a <c:out
value="${}}"/> tag?
Thanks,
Stef
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shawn Bayern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tag Libraries Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: Is there a way to call java.lang.String.substring on a <c: out
?
> On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Stefan wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to use substring on a c: out like so:
> >
> >
>
> No, this can't be done in JSTL 1.0. You'll be able to define functions in
> the EL in JSP 2.0, but for now, any attempt to do so should yield a
> translation-time error, as the syntax isn't supported.
>
> > It works but at the same time I get this error:
> >
> > 500 Servlet Exception
> > java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
> > at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor9.invoke(Unknown Source)
> > at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl
.java:25)
> > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
> > at com.caucho.el.MethodExpr.evalObject(MethodExpr.java:105)
>
> You might want to mail the Caucho folks and ask them about this; their
> implementation is different from Jakarta Taglibs's. Note again that it
> *shouldn't* work; if it does, then an implementation isn't JSTL-compliant.
>
> You can use other tag libraries like the String Taglib to perform string
> manipulation in your JSP pages.
>
> --
> Shawn Bayern
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