Question

I need to initialize complex javascript code as an string. But that javascript code contains semicolon and ” mark. I know I can escape ” mark using \”. But I don’t know how to escape semicolon.

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "8888888888888";
/* Error Page Ads */
google_ad_slot = "8888888";
google_ad_width = 336;
google_ad_height = 280;
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

I need to initialize above code as,

String complexString = "Above code here";

I can’t concatenate slices of code, because that way ; will be removed. Right?

This is for Servlet. I may be foolish, but pardon me.

Answer 1

I think what you really want to do is escape the quote characters in your javascript not your semicolon characters.

So ultimately you would want

String complexString = "<script type=\"text/javascript\"><!--
google_ad_client = \"8888888888888\";
/* Error Page Ads */
google_ad_slot = \"8888888\";
google_ad_width = 336;
google_ad_height = 280;
//-->
</script>  
<script type=\"text/javascript\"
src=\"http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js\">  
</script>"