how to perform minus (-) operation in a dynamic query

Hai all,

I am new to plpgsql ,I have a table structure:

Column | Type | Modifiers
--------+------------------+-----------
mf | double precision |
sf | double precision |
comm | integer |

I create a the following funtion

create or replace function test_perc() returns setof record as $body$

declare

vchr_query VARCHAR(100);

r record;

begin

vchr_query:= 'SELECT mf,sf,(mf – mf * comm /100) – (sf – sf * comm/100) as
flt_claim';

FOR r in EXECUTE vchr_query LOOP

RETURN NEXT r;

END LOOP;

RETURN;

end$body$
language 'plpgsql'

function created

but when I am traing to run this function I got the following error

ERROR: syntax error at or near "–" at character 18
QUERY: SELECT mf,sf,(mf – mf * comm /100) – (sf – sf * comm/100) as
flt_claim
CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function "test_perc" line 7 at for over execute statement
LINE 1: SELECT mf,sf,(mf – mf * comm /100) – (sf – sf * comm/100) as...

How I can solve this ,pls help me

thanks in advance:
Anoop