I run Perl in Linux (not linex). I've never encountered a problem with using dots. Why do you think Perl doesn't like them? To help us helping you, please provide more information - e.g. what error do you get, what modules do you use to access the database, etc.

($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,
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