On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Ron Piggott < ron.piggott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have made the following variable in a form: (I am referring the > <select> ) > > <?php > > $row['promo_code_prefix'] = 42; > $row['promo_code_suffix'] = 2; > > echo "<select name=\"distributor-" . $row['promo_code_prefix'] . "-" . > $row['promo_code_suffix'] . "\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\r\n"; > > ?> > > It could be wrote: > > <?php > > echo $distributor-42-2; > > ?> > > Only PHP is treating the hyphen as a minus sign --- which in turn is > causing a syntax error. > > How do I retrieve the value of this variable and over come the “minus” > sign that is really a hyphen? > php > ${distributor-42-2} = 5; php > echo ${distributor-42-2}; 5 I think that's it. -nathan