joe++ wrote: I know, [not importing anything] isn't going to work with HTML::Entities....

Actually, it can work with HTML::Entities. Merely specify an empty import list and fully qualify the function name.

    use HTML::Entities ();
    HTML::Entities::encode_entities( $name );
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Alternatively, you could simply require HTML::Entities and not call the import method.

Cheers,
Ovid

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