include and extra newline

'include' seems to put an extra newline after the included file. Example: a.php ----- start:<?php include 'a.txt'; ?>:end a.txt ----- middle The output is: start:middle :end Note that there is no newline at the end of 'middle' in a.txt, yet PHP puts one in anyway. This screws up Smarty, so I'd like to find out why this is happening and if it's not absolutely required, can we eliminate it. -Andrei Programming X-Windows is like trying to find the square root of pi using roman numerals. - Henry Spencer