BASH: Text string variable with spaces

[ryanVickers]

I'm quite confused with this. This

#!/bin/bash
variable="Hello there!"
echo $variable

makes the variable return "Hello there!", like it should, but in this code

showopt=", "$showopt"Test Archive"

(showopt is blank at this point)
it seems to return "," meaning it ignored everything after the space. How might I fix this!?!?!

[newlinux]

for me:

#!/bin/bash
showopt=", "$showopt"Test Archive"
echo $showopt

returns:

, Test Archive

Are you sure it is only returning ", "? Is there anything else in your script that might affect this?

[ryanVickers]

Well, here's the whole script:

*I'm sorry, please see the main page (signature)*

In theory, it should work, shouldn't it?!!

[ryanVickers]

I've done a little more testing, and found it's a zenity problem rather than BASH.