Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi

I have some <textarea> input that I would like to format for display.
My question is: How can I use fn:replace tag to replace carriage returns to
so that formatted input looks like exactly as entered in by user?

Doing

string.replaceAll("\r\n|\n","<br/>");

works fine from within a servlet but not if use fn:replace.....This is what I tried

                    <c:set var="msg" value="${param.message}"/>
                    ${fn:replace(msg, "\\r\\n|\\n", "<br/>")}

This doesn't work...
I have to use double backslashes in fn:replace - otherwise I get JSTL error.


Can someone tell me what am I doing wrong...
Thanks