Parse error making me insane!

> Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/henomel6/
> public_html/post/checklogin.php on line 24
>
> ok, loving php so far. but i cannot for the life of me figure out what
> is causing this.
>
> code below. i've tried for about an hour to debug this.
>
> <?php
> $host="localhost"; // Host name
> $username="mySQLuser"; // Mysql username
> $password="mySQLpw"; // Mysql password
> $db_name="myDBname"; // Database name
> $tbl_name="blog"; // Table name
>
> // Connect to server and select databse.
> mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password")or die("cannot
> connect");
> mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB");
>
> // username and password sent from form
> $user=$_POST['user'];
> $pass=$_POST['pass'];
>
> // To protect MySQL injection (more detail about MySQL injection)
> $user = stripslashes($user);
> $pass = stripslashes($pass);
> $user = mysql_real_escape_string($user);
> $pass = mysql_real_escape_string($pass);
>
>
> $sql="SELECT * FROM '$tbl_name' WHERE User='$user' and Pass='$pass';"
> $result=mysql_query($sql); //THIS IS LINE 24
>
> //echo $sql;
>
> // Mysql_num_row is counting table row
> //$count=mysql_num_rows($result);
> // If result matched $myusername and $mypassword, table row must be 1
> row
>
> /*if($count==1){
> // Register $myusername, $mypassword and redirect to file
> "login_success.php"
> session_register("myusername");
> session_register("mypassword");
> header("location:login_success.php");
> }
> else {
> echo "Wrong Username or Password";
> }*/
> ?>

> I think you have you double quote and semicolon transposed. You don't
> need a semicolon at the end of an sql string when using mysql_query.
>
>