New lines!

I thought it would be appropriate to start a new blog with a post about new lines. We've been trying to get a label in ASP.Net's Gridview to display multilines for text that a user has entered in a textbox. Basically, the user would post a message in a textbox, and the page would refresh to show the message. For some reason, new lines weren't being displayed properly. It might be just me, but I drove myself mental trying to find a solution for this online, and while string.Replace(System.Environment.NewLine, "
") worked well for hardcoded new lines, new lines which were being entered by the user just weren't rendering right.

So after much tinkering involving displaying the ascii values of all non-alphabetic and numeric characters, I found that when a user hits Enter in a text box, it's stored as ascii value (10). System.Environment.NewLine for Windows systems is (13)(10) . And so this ugly line was born:

text = text.Replace(((char)10).ToString(), (((char)13).ToString()) + (((char)10).ToString()));

Surely someone can come up with a better way than that! Please enlighten me if you do, and I hope this helps someone else who has this problem.