Java jstl function replace
The JSTL (JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library) fn
tag library provides a set of functions for manipulating strings, collections, and other objects in JSP (JavaServer Pages) pages. One of the functions in the fn
tag library is the fn:replace
function, which is used to replace all occurrences of a substring in a string with another substring.
The fn:replace
function takes three arguments:
- The string to search in
- The substring to search for
- The substring to replace the occurrences with
The function returns a new string with all occurrences of the search substring replaced with the replacement substring. The syntax of the function is as follows:
${fn:replace(string, substringToSearchFor, substringToReplaceWith)}
where string
is the string to search in, substringToSearchFor
is the substring to search for, and substringToReplaceWith
is the substring to replace occurrences of substringToSearchFor
with.
For example, to replace all occurrences of the substring "foo" in the string "hello foo world" with the substring "bar", you would use the following expression:
${fn:replace('hello foo world', 'foo', 'bar')}
This expression returns the string "hello bar world", where all occurrences of the substring "foo" have been replaced with the substring "bar".
You can also use variables instead of literals for the arguments. For example, if you have a variable text
containing a string, you can replace all occurrences of a substring in it using the following expression:
${fn:replace(text, 'foo', 'bar')}
This expression returns a new string with all occurrences of the substring "foo" replaced with the substring "bar" in the string stored in the text
variable.
Note that the fn
tag library must be imported at the beginning of the JSP page using the following tag:
<%@ taglib prefix="fn" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions" %>
This imports the fn
tag library and assigns it a prefix of fn
.