Using "-" in a variable without calculating

This should be an easy one... when I have a # in the output,
to cancel it out, I add another one (ie. color=##ffffff). But I'm
having problems with the same type of thing if I use a hyphen/minus
sign "-".
I have three variables that I'm trying to merge as:
#variable1#-#variable2#-#variable3#
so the number when I do CFSET should be something like
1234-5678-9000
I tried adding another - sign and it just calculates that
too.
But if I try to set that as a variable, it does the
calculation instead. I hope this makes sense :)
Is there a way to cancel out the - so it doesn't calculate it
and just places it in the variable? I'm using CF 5.
Thanks!

> I have three variables that I'm trying to merge as:
>
> #variable1#-#variable2#-#variable3#
Doing that you're treating them like numeric values with the
minus operator
bewteen them, hence it's interpretting the expression
literally.
What you need to do it to consider that what you're trying to
do is to
create a string. So you need to put string-delimiters around
the
expression, or use the string-concatenation operator:
"foo bar"
or
"foo" & " " & "bar"
Adam

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