set_value not working??

[eluser]pendalpusher[/eluser]
I have a pretty extensive form going and I am using set_value() to repopulate if validation fails.

There are two fields on the page that will not repopulate ... can anyone tell me why?

Here is what I have in php

Code:

<?=form_label('Job Number','job_number');?>
<?=form_input('job_number',set_value('job_number'));?>

but no matter what i do it will not repopulate the form field all i get in the source code is this

Code:

//HTML OUTPUT
<label for="job_number">Job Number</label>
&lt;input type="text" name="job_number" value=""  /&gt;

anyone have an idea??

this happens on this field and one other one. I have checked and double checked the code, I even re-wrote the sections near the problems in case i missed something. But still nothing.

Thanks for any help.
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