title: How to find and replace <br> tag in a string?
body: <p>I need to find if a string contains a <code>&lt;br&gt;</code> tag and I wish to replace the tag with a space instead I have tried this but to no avail:</p>
  
  <pre><code>        if (cell.contains("&lt;br\\/&gt;")) {
              cell = cell.replace("&lt;br\\/&gt;"," ");
          }
  </code></pre>