Wierd spaces in my variables

I did this

$getdomain is a variable created by mysql when it pulls out a row.

$getdomain2 = ereg_replace (" ", "", $getdomain);
echo "$getdomain2!<br>";

et when it does the echo i get

*note the space before the "!"

Why does this happen?

I have had some problems with that command myself but for what you are doing surely trim() would work better?

Mark.

I'd also be concerned about confusion between the variable names and would change your code to

echo "{$getdomain2}!<br>"; 
//or even
echo $getdomain2 . '!<br>';