That's sort of what my "... you won't need the terminal newline ..." was referring to.

When you have a quoted string that extends over more than one line, you have embedded newlines - these are the ones you typed at the keyboard (not explicit \n characters).

Your original last two lines:

<td>
<table><tr><td><br>\n";
[download]

are actually:

<td>{embedded newline}
<table><tr><td><br>\n";
[download]

You could have achieved the same output with:

<td>
<table><tr><td><br>
";
[download]

which is actually:

<td>{embedded newline}
<table><tr><td><br>{embedded newline}
";
[download]

Although I used ellipses, what you see on the screen:

<table ...>
...
};
[download]

is actually:

<table ...>{embedded newline}
...{embedded newline}
};
[download]

I hope that explains it. If not, please show an example of exact output.

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