I would imagine the problem has something to do with those escaped quote
marks, but in any case, you could probably get around it by doing this:

$foo = "Entry for " . $HTTP_POST_VARS["name"];

some correct me if I'm wrong

-chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: webapprentice [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 10:09 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] Variables within a string
> 
> Hello,
> 
> When I try to do this:
> $foo = "Entry for for $HTTP_POST_VARS[\"name\"]";
> 
> I receive this error:
> Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_STRING' or `T_VARIABLE' or
> `T_NUM_STRING' on line X
> 
> Why does it do this, and how do I get around this, besides assigning
the
> value of $HTTP_POST_VARS[\"name\"] to variable $bar?
> 
> Thank you for your time and help.
> 
> --Stephen
> 
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