Hide empty merge fields

Hi!
I am merging address book fields into a Pages document, but not all of the address book contacts have data in all of the fields in the Pages document. When I go to print, the empty fields show up in the document with the field name (e.g. Other Names). I'm wondering if there is a way to hide the fields in the document when they contain no data. Any ideas…?
Thanks!

// run the query; if it fails, print out the error message and terminate the script
$result = mysql_query($QrySQL) or die('Query failed: ' . mysql_error());
//if there isn't a row to fetch, then mysql_fetch_assoc() will return FALSE.
if ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
//$row now contains an associative array of the field names to their values in the first row
$firstSeen = $row['FirstSeen'];
You could loop through the result set by replacing that if with a while. If you wanted to find out how many rows were returned, you could use mysql_num_rows().

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