I found this quite weired problem when I was trying to generate a mysql query string, something like .... WHERE TheDate<DATA_ADD(......) The query string returns something like .... WHERE TheDate Withought the left part. You can actually try to use this to verify the problem: echo '<br><br> e<D'; What you get? I got <D> Quite confusing. Anyone think this is a bug or something I missed? -- If you have a minute, please visit http://www.cchere.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php