is fgets causing these line breaks

[Bill]

I am downloading data from a website that displays it in a table
$fp = fopen("a website page", 'r');

The following accesses the stream one <td> element at a time
$myData = fgets($fp);

Then I select the $myData that I want and add them to a string, $str1
while(condition ){
$str1 = $str1.$myData;
$myData = fgets($fp);
}

then strip the html tags from the string
$body = strip_tags($str 1);

and use the resulting string as the body of an email
mail($to,$subje ct,$body,$from)
If I echo $body to the php page doing all this, $body displays as a single
line with no line breaks.
However the resulting email displays $body as a series of lines
corresponding to those derived from $myData = fgets($fp).
Can someone please explain what is happening here?
Ideally I would like to be able format $body so the email lines break
differently to this.

Thanks

[Pedro Graca]

Bill wrote:

I am downloading data from a website that displays it in a table
$fp = fopen("a website page", 'r');

The following accesses the stream one <td> element at a time
$myData = fgets($fp);
fgets() returns a string with the newline attached!

You may want to trim() it before processing further:

$myData = trim(fgets($fp) );
[snip] If I echo $body to the php page doing all this, $body displays as a single
line with no line breaks.
Line breaks do not show up in the browser. Check the HTML source and I'm
pretty sure you will find the line breaks there.
However the resulting email displays $body as a series of lines
corresponding to those derived from $myData = fgets($fp).
The line breaks do show on mail bodies.
[unless you send (bad) HTML mail]
Can someone please explain what is happening here?
Ideally I would like to be able format $body so the email lines break
differently to this.

Hopefully you will be able to do it now.

Happy Coding :-)
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