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Thank you, Bill, for your code. That is what I need. I tried to use
StringBuffer myself, but I could not understand, what are those ints
replace(int1, int2 etc.)... javadoc is not self-explaining. Now I see, how
it should be used. Thank you very much for your help.

Philipp


----- Original Message -----
From: <wwg@tscnet.com>
To: <instantDB@enhydra.org>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 3:35 AM
Subject: Re: InstantDB: how to replace quotes with &quot; ?


> Hi there -- this is more of a general Java question, but
> I'll try to help.  You need to employ the StringBuffer's
> replace, which will let you replace a substring with
> another.  String.replace only works on single chars.
> Here's the contents of a test app, test.java, that
> should help.  P.S. I don't guarantee that this is the
> most elegant way to do this ... and you could certainly
> make a generic replace method that would handle any
> substring substitution.  I'll leave that part for you
> ...   ;-)
>
> Good Luck!
> Bill Graham
>
> -------------------------------------
> import java.util.*;
>
> public class test
> {
>     public static void main(String[] args)
>     {
>         String str = "This is a \"String\" that I'm
> going to work on ...";
>         StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer( str );
>
>         System.out.println("Original: " + str);
>
>         int pos;
>         while ( (pos = str.indexOf("\"")) > -1 )
>         {
>             sb.replace(pos, pos + 1, "&quot;");
>             str = sb.toString();
>         }
>         System.out.println("Double Quotes Fixed: " +
> str);
>
>         while ( (pos = str.indexOf("\'")) > -1 )
>         {
>             sb.replace(pos, pos + 1, "&#039;");
>             str = sb.toString();
>         }
>
>         System.out.println("Single Quotes Fixed: " +
> str);
>     }
> }
> ----------------------------------
>
> Quoting Philipp Chudinov <morpheus@basko.ru>:
>
> > Hi, all!
> >
> > I've made some kind of primitive "news management
> system" with
> > jsp&instantDB- just to make myself familiar with Java,
> JDBC and InstantDB.
> > One of the most stupid problem I've faced with is
> replacement of " with
> > &quot;. I need to convert " to &quot; because I need
> to show data in a
> > form - but if there is a " symbol, the form in html
> does not render
> > properly
> > (<input type="blah" value="hereis some value and if
> here is also
> > some"quotes" this form is not a "valid html
> document"">) - also, how is it
> > possible to convert ' to smth alse? InstantDB
> understands \' fine, but,
> > imagine, you should put escape symbol every time you
> need to edit a
> > story...
> >
> > When I try to use .replace() method of
> java.lang.String, I get an error (I
> > am new to java and I can not understand why it
> produces an error... In
> > vbscript (asp) it is a very simple function
> replce(inputstr, what to
> > replce,
> > what replace with)...)
> >
> > Maybe, someone can explain me, how things like this
> gets processed usually?
> >
> > P.S. sorry for my poor english.
> >
> >
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