Difference in a string and the text retrieved from JTextBox

Question

Hello,
I am facing a peculiar problem. Please see the following code fragment:
m.replaceAll(";\ngo;);
where m is a matcher. This is working fine. But whenever I am doing
m.replaceAll(myTextBox.getText());
and placing ";\ngo;" in the text Field is not working as before. This is because that getText() returns a string in text form(doesnot take the newline into consideration). Any idea how to solve this?
Regards,
Saurav

Answer 1

Here is the following code:
File fin = new File(file);
File fout = new File("C:\\Temp\\temp123.txt");
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(fin);
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(fout);
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fis));
BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(fos));
Pattern p = Pattern.compile(find);
Matcher m = p.matcher("");
String aLine = null;
while((aLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
m.reset(aLine);
String result = m.replaceAll(replace);
out.write(result);
out.newLine();
in.close();
out.close();
What I intend to do is that the user will provide a fileName from the GUI and also the text to find and the text to repalce with. Both of them will be in a JTextBox. Now
suppose I want to replace ";" in the line "Hello;" with ";\nHow are u?" so that the line looks like
"Hello;
How are u?"
But what is happening is that the line looks like
"Hello;\nHow are u?" after replacement.
This happens because getText() doesnot considers that as a special character...
I tried to harcode the replace string and it worked perfectly....
Thats the problem.....I need the same behaviour with getText().
Regards,
Saurav