Re: Totally lost on why If statement doesn't work to call query

whoa! It looks like a space. no? results of echo var_dump($z): string(4) "C " I'll try a trim statement. thanks! John Holmes <holmes072000@charter.net> wrote: From: "Karen Resplendo" > $data5=odbc_do($connectionSDS,"SELECT SystemType FROM > orweb.dbo.InventoryTiny WHERE PWS='$pwsno'"); > $z=odbc_result($data5,"SystemType"); > $thissystem="C"; > echo $z; //returns "C" > echo " "; > echo $thissystem; //returns "C" > echo " "; > If($z==$thissystem) Try var_dump($z) to see if there are any extra characters returned in $z. ---John Holmes... -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!