Josh,
check the following url:
http://www.activsoftware.com/code_samples/code.cfm/CodeID/137/Java/Enumerating_the_System_Properties_in_JSP

Ramesh Kadirisani.

josh hughes wrote:

> Hello,
> Could anyone help me complete my first jsp tutorial.
> I must admit, I am very new to JSP, although I have a reasonable
> understanding of Actionscript, PHP, HTML, CFML and a bit of Objective-
> C (so jsp seemed like a natural progression).
>
> I'm trying to follow a tutorial found at http://www.jsptut.com/
> Mixing.jsp
>
> So far I have worked through each tut without to many problems, until
> I hit the exercise at the bottom of the above page.
>
> The exercise asks me to "Write a JSP to output all the values
> returned by System.getProperties with "<BR>" embedded after each
> property name and value. Do not output the "<BR>" using the "out"
> variable."
>
> I have no problems printing the values returned by the
> System.getProperties() call, but the exercise seems to ask me to loop
> through the result, embedding a <br> after each item!?.
>
> I take it I must somehow convert the result to an array that I can
> then loop through, adding the <br> after each cycle!?.
>
> I have tried converting the result using; String myArray[] = <%=
> System.getProperties()%> but to no avail.
>
> can anyone tell me if I'm understanding the exercise correctly and if
> so, maybe point my in the right
> direction as I'm running out of hair to pull out!!?
>
> many thanks in advance.
>
> josh.
>
> P.S sorry if my terminology isn't 100%. i plead ignorance!
>
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