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>>That's because "-" trims trailing spaces. Try
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>Is this correct? I thought "-" moved the spaces to the end rather than trimming them.
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>>lastName - ", " + firstName (or RTRIM(firstName))
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>If LastName has trailing blanks I got
>LLLLLL, FFFFFF

I'm virtually ignorant of HTML and didn't realize the extra blanks would get trimmed out of my reply. It should have been

LLLLLL,BBBBBBFFFFFF

where "B" represents a blank

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>>or, to be more elaborate,
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>>ALLTRIM(lastName) + ", " + ALLTRIM(firstName)
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>This looks like the best bet