Need help on putting variable into <form>

Help. I have a page with a form with lots of text boxes which can be filled with data from a text file. the fopen() and fgets() works, and the text boxes which require numbers have no problems. But, I have text boxes which require several words of text and they refuse to work right. The first word makes it in the box, but the rest of the words are lost. As an example, the data file contains: ABC Company, Inc. in the spot for $comp_name. If I call for this variable elsewhere outside of a text box, it prints in full, but when used by the following, it prints only: ABC print "<input type=text size=30 name=comp_name value=$comp_name>"; There must be something blindingly obvious that I'm missing. Please help. Thanks, Hugh