[PHP to hide an item if field value is null]

Hi

 

I would really appreciate some help.

 

I am trying to structure some php to detect if a value is null, if it is not null i want it to print the value if null print nothing.

 

so far all i have it doing is detecting whether it is null or not. but it is printing part of my code instead of the fields value.

 

here is the code I have

 

this is for a word press theme that I am modifying for my purpose.

<td colspan="7" class="hideme"> 
'. (get_post_meta($post->ID,"_as_pros",true)!="" ? '(get_post_meta($post->ID,"_as_pros")' : '') .' 


</td>