MySQL to HTML Formatting

I'm working with a mysql/php setup and have run into a major problem (for me atleast). We have mysql TEXT fields that contain line breaks and the kind something like

FIELD CONTENT
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First paragraph

Second paragraph

Third Paragraph
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END FIELD CONTENT

While that is fine in MySQL when it is output to HTML it comes out as

NETSCAPE
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First paragraphSecond paragraphThird paragraph
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END NETSCAPE

Does anyone know of a php function that can add in the needed <BR> and <P> so that the output will actually look as intended?

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Luke Bowerman
new media arts
www.judebowerman.com/nma

Never mind... I made my own solution using a build in function & a regular expression.

$var = stripslashes($var);
$var = ereg_replace( "n","<br>",$var);

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Luke Bowerman
new media arts
www.judebowerman.com/nma

PHP has a built in function nl2br();

http://www.php.net/manual/function.nl2br.php3

It is faster than using regex.