Is there something like the PHP function nl2br() for ASP.NET MVC?

Question

Is there stock standard function that does newline to <br /> encoding in ASP.Net MVC?

Answer 1

mystring.Replace("\r\n","<br />");

Answer 2

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 />");

Answer 3

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...

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

What about something along the lines of:

public static string Nl2br(string str)
{
    return Nl2br(str, true);
}

public static string Nl2br(string str, bool isXHTML)
{
    string brTag = "<br>";
    if (isXHTML) {
        brTag = "<br />";
    }
    return str.Replace("\r\n", brTag + "\r\n");
}

Here's the function signature from the PHP documention:

string nl2br ( string $string [, bool $is_xhtml = true ] )

The PHP function also appends a newline after the break tag.