I suggest you keep using strict and use a hash!!!

You could build your SQL statements differently...

$SQL='select * from table where :name=:value';
$SQL=~s/:(\w+)/$data{$1}/g;
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a better alternative for fixed fields (you are using DBI, right??)

$sth = $dbh->prepare('select * from table where name=?');
$rv=$sth->execute($data{name});
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