Unique Problem With Printed White Space

[Anon]

I have a unique problem, at least to me.

I have a form that posts to a PHP page. If the resulting variable is NOT = 0 then I assign a bit of text to a variable for inclusion in an email.

Ex.

------ Code Snippet -------

/ If osted variable is > 0, assign it to a printable variable /
if($aprnumber > "0"){
$varyapr = "----------------------------------
April 20$year
Total Tickets: $aprnumber
Average Open Time Per Ticket: $aprhours hours, $aprminutes minutes
----------------------------------";
};

mail("$EmailTo", "Time Report For 20$year","
$varyjan
$varyfeb
$varymar
$varyapr
$varymay
$varyjun\n","From: $Adminemail");
-------- End code snippet ---------

This actually works well for what I am doing. The problem is, I am assignin 15 printable variables, and when some of them are empty, the email is printed with a blank line in between each variable.

I want to remove the blank lines.

------- example: resulting email ------

This is the first printed variable
This is the second printed variable

This is the sixth printed variable
------- end example email --------------

Notice the blank lines in between the text.
Am I going in the right direction here?

How do I get rid of the blank lines?

I checked 'trim()' but didn't have much luck with that.

All ideas are welcome.

[omegaorion]

Hi there, your problem is with the carriage returns you ahve in the string...

mail("$EmailTo", "Time Report For 20$year","
$varyjan\n$varyfeb \n$varymar \n$varyapr \n$varymay \n$varyjun\n","From: $Adminemail");

is equivalent (in a genral sense , depending on OS written in could be \r\n or something..) to this:
mail("$EmailTo", "Time Report For 20$year","
$varyjan
$varyfeb
$varymar
$varyapr
$varymay
$varyjun\n","From: $Adminemail");

so.. those carriage returns are going to go into that email no matter whether the variable in front of it is set or not..

for each variable, append a \n to the end of it , so you only get a newline for every variable present

Chris