the incredible disappearing commas

[hwttdz]

I have some code and I'm making a string that should have commas, but there are no commas. It looks like:

$somevar = "some, text";
$string = "$somevar, some other text";
echo("$string");

and the output is "some text, some other text" it's really bizzare, because I'm almost sure the exact same type of thing has worked before. I tried escaping it like \, but it didn't help. Thanks for any help.

[devinemke]

works on my box:

$somevar = 'some, text';
$string = $somevar . ', some other text';
echo $string; // ouputs "some, text, some other text"