RE: Am I missing something simple? calling java.lang.String.repla ce(c har, char)

["Streithorst, Kip" <ks...@ball.com>]

The workaround will suffice. 

Thanks, 
Kip 

> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [ mailto:geirm@optonline.net
<ma...@optonline.net> ] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 10:10 AM 
> To: velocity-user@jakarta.apache.org 
> Subject: Re: Am I missing something simple? calling 
> java.lang.String.replace(c har, char) 
> 
> 
> On 4/3/02 9:57 AM, "Streithorst, Kip" <ks...@ball.com> wrote: 
> 
> > I am trying to call java.lang.String.replace(char oldChar, 
> char newChar) 
> > 
> > in my velocity template using 
> > 
> > $thestring.replace('\\', '/') 
> > 
> > But this doesn't seem to work. 
> > 
> 
> Beautiful problem :) 
> 
> There are a whole bunch of things wrong here.  First, 
> '<stuff>' is a string, 
> not a char.  The diff between "" and '' is that '' isn't interpolated.

> 
> So 
> #set($foo = 'hello') 
> #set($bar = "$foo") 
> #set($woogie = '$foo') 
> $bar 
> $woogie 
> 
> Outputs 
> 
> Hello 
> $foo 
> 
> We have no natural way to specify a char in Velocity.  That's 
> why the method 
> isn't getting called. 
> 
> So you can resort to a horror show like : 
> 
> #set($foo = "hello?") 
> #set($thingy = "?!") 
> #set($a = $thingy.charAt(0)) 
> #set($b = $thingy.charAt(1)) 
> $foo 
> $foo.replace($a, $b) 
> 
> And that works. 
> 
> I have no immediate ideas on what to do about the fact we 
> have no way of 
> representing a char... 
> 
> -- 
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