Escaping carriage return characters in textarea

Hi all,
I have a HTML form containing a textarea field which users might us the carriage return.
This form is then submitted to a processing servlet which saves the data to the database.
Subsequently, I have another page which will retrieve the data using JDBC and and display these in HTML.
Here's the problem:
How do I replace the carriage return characters (seems from the database that there are 2 of them) with <br>?
I've tried using the String.replaceAll("\r\n", "<br>"), but it didn't work :-(
Thanks!

Becuase you enter your patterns as expressions where some characters are used as control characters, and then have to esacpe some of the control characters in the expressions when you enter them as java strings.
So the expression is actually \r\n if you let a user enter it into a textfield, but you have to escape the \ if you write it as a String in the source code (since \ is an escape characters in strings)
/Kaj

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*"Don't start multiple threads on the same topic: http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5380830*
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{color:#FF0000}{size:60px}*Do not*{size}{color}
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