how to get line Break in Servlet output

[Manjesh Patil]

Hi I have the following requirement

String s="aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa  \n bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb";

When I write this to browser from servlet, the output will be printed in the same line but I am expecting in two lines (in text form not HTML form which can be achived using <br/>).
If I use System.out.println(s) , it prints as I am expecting.

I have tried the following things but no gain!

 doGet ()   {
String s="aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa  \n bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb";  
PrintWriter out=new PrintWriter(response.getOutputStream(), true);
out.print(s);
}

Also I have noticed one thing that

System.getProperty("line.separator");  returns blank (nothing) 

. I am using JRE6 WINDOWS 7 and ECLIPSE
is this the problem?

can someone help me..?
thanks in advance
Ma

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

Manjesh Patil wrote: the output will be printed in the same line

I doubt that it is printing output. since you are creating PrintWriter Object. you should flush the output stream, after the write

out.print(s); 
out.flush();

[Manjesh Patil]

Thanks for Reply

yes ...there is

out.flush() ; in the code 

. It writes the output but in single line.............

how to configure these outputstreams so as to consider the new line character?

-thanks
Ma

[Bear Bibeault]

Think! Stop, and think!

Where is the output being sent? Answer: to a browser.

So what does the browser do with the line break?

[Bill Li]

I think you should encode these strings when you output to the brower.

[Bear Bibeault]

Bill Li wrote:I think you should encode these strings when you output to the brower.

No.

What creates a line break in the browser? Not the answer: a new line. So what is the answer?

[vinayak jog]

the tag which used to break the line..