You can write it however you like. My follow-up on the other thread was only because you seemed to not understand any of morgon's suggestions. :)

I think the answer to your question is what I just suggested on the other thread: there is no Perl reason you'd get an empty row; this is an SQL/data issue.

The other possibility is what anonymonk above and I on the other thread suggested and told you how to diagnose. Your quote contains wonky HTML, comment, or script tags or something and it's eating the display.