Escape characters such as \n dont work??

Question

Im taking a string eg "Hello \n World" from an xml file.
However when I system out the resulting string I get
Hello \n World
whereas I'd expect
Hello
World
Anyway round this??
I'd appreciate any input.

Answer 1

That's really quite strange, of course escape sequences work. When you write \n to a file, it should not take it litteraly unless you're doing this ---> "\\n", if there is a backslash before the escape sequence, it will ignore the escape sequence and do it litteraly. You should remember though, that Java is meant to be platform independant, so you should use it platform independantly:
private String endl = System.getProperty("line.separator");
Now you can append endl to any string, and it should be that platform's specific line separator.
StringBuffer myBuf = new StringBuffer();
myBuff.append("Hello World!").append(endl).append("My name is Bob!");
System.out.println(myBuf.toString());