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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, """);
            str = sb.toString();
        }
        System.out.println("Double Quotes Fixed: " +
str);

        while ( (pos = str.indexOf("\'")) > -1 )
        {
            sb.replace(pos, pos + 1, "'");
            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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