Anyway, what exactly does ‘The solution is to not quote variables when you don't need it.’ mean? That I should quote only strings?
When you put quotes around something, you turn that thing into a string. You can quote whatever you want to, but, after you quote it, it will be a string, so you should only quote things that you want to be strings.

But you should also remember what already is a string and avoid re-quoting existing strings, partly because it's wasted keystrokes, partly because it's potentially inefficient (it's less work to just use the existing string than to change the existing string into a new string and then use the new one), and partly because there could be some edge cases where quoting the existing string might change it or otherwise break something.

In reply to Re^7: $dbh could not be passed to function unless another variable is also passed by dsheroh
in thread $dbh could not be passed to function unless another variable is also passed by tukusejssirs

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