Java Nashhorn New Line

Question

I have a problem with the Java Nashhorn engine. New Lines (\n) do not working.

Example:

ScriptEngine engine = new ScriptEngineManager().getEngineByName("nashorn");
engine.eval("print('test \n')");

This is the error output:

javax.script.ScriptException: <eval>:1:12 Missing close quote

Thanks for helping

Answer 1

You need to escape the \. Otherwise the effective javascript looks like:

print('test 
')

Which is incorrect.

Use this:

ScriptEngine engine = new ScriptEngineManager().getEngineByName("nashorn");
engine.eval("print('test \\n')");