Is there something like the PHP function nl2br() for ASP.NET MVC?
There is now:
public static class StockStandardFunctions{ public static string Nl2br(this string input) { return input.Nl2br(true); } public static string Nl2br(this string input, bool is_xhtml) { return input.Replace("\r\n", is_xhtml ? "<br />\r\n" : "<br>\r\n"); }}Amended to follow the php spec for nl2br a little more closely (thanks Max for pointing that out). This still assumes \r\n new lines though...
All these answers are quite correct, but you should do a mystring.Replace("\r?\n", "<br />"); to catch UNIX line endings as well, if your source (user input or db) might deliver that.
I don't believe there's a 'stock standard function' to do this exactly the same as PHP's nl2br() function however the following will do the equivelant:
myString.Replace("\r\n", "<br />");