question about INCLUDE behavior

Hello! I have this include file: include.inc --------- (line is not included) <table> <tr> ... </tr> </table> --------- (line is not included) In my code I am doing the following: ... if ($publication_type == "magazines") { $print_data = include ('included.inc'); echo $print_data; } ... and the results are the following --------- (line is not included) <table> <tr> ... </tr> </table> 1 --------- (line is not included) I have this " 1 " there that I don't know where come from... Could you please tell e what is that? BTW the work around that I found is the following (it is dirty but is working): --------- (line is not included) <table> <tr> ... </tr> </table> <!-- --------- (line is not included) and is printing the following now: --------- (line is not included) <table> <tr> ... </tr> </table> <!-- 1 --------- (line is not included) problem solved... I know that is veeery ugly, but I don't understand RegEx (by the way, where I can find info about this?) and I could not figure out a string function that will take out this last character... Heeeeelp!!! ;-) thank you!! Rom