Java: replacing each line with an HTML paragraph

Question

I'm writing a text to HTML converter. I'm looking for a simple way to wrap each line of text (which ends with carriage return) with

<p>.....text.....</p>

Can you suggest some String replacement/regular expression that will work in Java ?
Thanks

Answer 1

String txtFileContent = ....;
String htmlContent = "<p>" + txtFileContent.replaceAll("\\n","</p>\\n<p>") + "</p>";

Assuming,

1. line delimitter is "\\n".
2. One line is one paragraph.
3. The end of txtFileContent is not "\\n"

Hope this help

Answer 2

Try using StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml and then adding the tags you want at the beginning end.

    String escapeHTML = StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml(inputStr);
    String output = "<p>"+escapeHTML+"</p>";