Hello my friends!

I am a new programmer, pulled into this awesome world through the gateway of Bitcoin, trying to use the Blockchain.info create wallet API. I keep receiving an error message that my API key is incorrect but it is copy + pasted from the email I received so that seems unlikely to me.

Let me know if there is something I am messing up or if it really is my API key that is giving me grief.

http://blockchain.info/api/create_wallet <-- API details

I am trying a get request as such:

https://blockchain.info/api/v2/create_wallet?password=$testtest12?api_code=$my_Api_Key

Where my_Api_Key = the key that was supplied to me via email

Thanks in advance!