Format Contents of String Variable in JSP

cyberwit

I have the contents of a string variable been displayed to the screen now the variable contains xml symtax but i dont want to format the results using xml i just want to parse the string varibale so the contents of the string is displayed nicely

the code is as follows

 <div id="stylized" class="myform" >
          <%
            TripClient tripclient = new TripClient();
            String Result = tripclient.getTripRecord(TripHistory);
          %>

<h1>Web Service Trip History Confirmation</h1>

<p> TripID <b>${TripHistory.tripid}</b></p>


[COLOR="Red"]<center><b><font size="12" face="Times"><%=Result%><b></center></font>[/COLOR]
</div>

The contents of my result variable i want to format

instead of

402Conference04-05-0906-05-09Paper242004hfhedd

i want

402 Conference 04-05-09 06-05-09 Paper 24 2004hfhedd

or even better

Trip ID : 402

Description: Conference

Date From: 04-05-09

Date To: 06-05-09

Reason: Paper

Department: 24

EmployeeNumber: 2004hfhedd

ronivek

In general that kind of formatting is not something that's built in as such; you'd need to define it yourself using either regular expressions or some kind of print function.

tripclient.getTripRecord(TripHistory)

This returns your String so would it not be easier to modify your function?