Array Brain Freeze

Hello all, I have the follwoing piece of code: //reference a stored procedure $procedure = "Execute Procedure informix.arrest_char($part_id)"; //run the stored procedure $char_query = ifx_query($procedure, $connect_id); //get the result of the stored procedure $char_result = ifx_fetch_row($char_query); //print out the returned values. print_r($char_result); This all works just fine and I have values returned. What I am trying to do is assign one of the array items to a variable. In the past I have done so like this: $stat_1 = $char_result['stat_1']; But for some odd reason $stat_1 doesn't contain anything. Am I going crazy or am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Dan