Recently, I had to format my db server and when I re-attached the database, I noticed some unusal behavior. I have some fields in certain tables with a width of 60. When I would extract data from the table for that specific field, the data would contain extra blank chars. As a result, I am forced to use the trim function to get rid of the extra chars. This problem has never occured before and I now find it quite annoying. Does anybody have any ideas? Thanks, Dale -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php