imap_body adds newlines in messagebody

[kutchbhi]

$mail_headers = imap_headerinfo($inbox, $emails[0]);
$head = imap_fetchheader($inbox, $mail_headers->Msgno, FT_INTERNAL &  FT_PREFETCHTEXT );
$mail_body = imap_fetchbody($inbox, $mail_headers->Msgno, '1', FT_INTERNAL);
// file_put_contents('spotify.csv', $mail_body) ;
print_r($mail_body) ;
     

I am trying to read a message from a pop3 email account. the email which contains a csv file as text, 

 

When I try to print_r the email_body it contains more new lines than what it had originally. My guess is that the imap_fetch functions are inserting newlines inside the text (to make it readable).

 

How do I prevent this ?

[iarp]

Have you tried adding FT_INTERNAL to the imap_fetchbody $options.

string imap_fetchbody ( resource $imap_stream , int $msg_number , string $section [, int $options = 0 ] )

FT_INTERNAL - The return string is in internal format, will not canonicalize to CRLF.

Not 100% sure that'll do what you want, as I've never personally worked with this function before, but reading that it looks like by default it changes it to CRLF.