On Nov 19, 2007 12:16 PM, Dan Shirah <mrsquash2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jim, > > I used your suggestion and modified it a little bit. All of the names are > pulled from the database, but for some reason once it has pulled all the > names form each query it is adding an empty result to the end. > > So when I do a echo $row['first_name']." ".$row['last_name']."<br />\n"; > it > is returning something like this: > > John Smith > Bob Smith > > Jane Smith > Robert Smith > > The gap between the names contains a single space " ". I tried to trim > the > results but cannot get rid of it. > > Any ideas? Run a test condition before displaying: <?php $first = trim ($row['first_name']); $last = trim ($row['last_name']); if (!empty ($first) && !empty ($last)) echo "$first $last<br/>\n"; ... ?> HTH ~Philip