Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all,
I am having difficulties writing an ftp script to retrieve a file via get using a variable name to pass the file name.
I know the name of the file I am going to retrieve, this file name has embedded spaces and punctuation in the name itself.
If I interactively use the get and I type in the file name as it exists eclosed into double quotes, then get successfully retrieves the file, yet if I set up a var containing the file name (spaces and everything else that makes up the name), the get is not able to retrieve (expand the var) the file.
I tried with and without quotes, with and without a dollar sign etc ....
Will anybody have some advice for me?
Thanks.

and double quotes?

Yes I tried double quotes, too, no luck.

Can you post your script within code tags?

And using backslashes?
e.g.

Code:

var="\ \. \ blah\ "

Here is a sample of what I am trying to achieve:

Code:

lfn="This is the long file namelong.PDF"
dirwherefileis=/55
ftp -v ftpservername
.
.
.
cd $dirwherefileis
ls        (this gives me the files and I see my file as one of the listed ones)
get $lfn    (this returns access denied)
get "$lfn"    (this returns access denied)
bye

What is the permission of the file?