Question

I am fairly new to JSP , i learned that to create a variable you say this

<%String abc="1"; %>

If i want to change to value of abc I used this

<%= abc = "2" %> //Is this the right way??

But this value is shown on my JSP page how do I make it not show in my jsp page.

Answer 1

The short answer to your question is remove the =. The <%= %> evaluates and prints the contents. Anything between <% %> is just standard java code. So, you want

<% String abc = "1"; %>
....some stuff....
<% abc = "2"; %>