in reply to DBI:Sybase - Period in database name

Try quote_identifier:
     "quote_identifier"

       $sql = $dbh->quote_identifier( $name );
       $sql = $dbh->quote_identifier( $catalog, $schema, $table, \%att
+r );

     Quote an identifier (table name etc.) for use in an SQL
     statement, by escaping any special characters (such as
     double quotation marks) it contains and adding the required
     type of outer quotation marks.

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Update: Hmm, all that function seems to do for 'foo.table' is wrap double quotes around it...so if that doesn't work for you, then I don't know what else to do.

Another update: Aha (read other posts in this thread). Sybase quotes identifiers with brackets (e.g. "[column name with spaces]"), which suggests to me that quote_identifier should do the same, although there is also a DBD::Sybase attribute 'syb_quoted_identifier', which AFAICT is supposed to enable single quotes for quoting identifiers.

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Re^2: DBI:Sybase - Period in database name
by apu (Sexton) on Feb 23, 2013 at 02:13 UTC 
      $DBNAME = $dbh->quote_identifier( $DBNAME );
  $dbh->do("use $DBNAME");
    results in 
       DBD::Sybase::db do failed: Server message number=170
   severity=15 state=1 line=1 server=SQLSERVER
   text=Line 1: Incorrect syntax near 'ps_inventory.ad'.

    (I did throw some additional debugging in there temporarily and it is quoting the $DBNAME but DBD::Sybase is still throwing the error.)

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      what does sybase manual say about quoting database names? about error (number 170) ?
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