Monks, I am setting a var that equals a price. I then use that var as part of another var that includes some html. When it gets stuffed in the database, instead of printing the price it prints the var name. If I print the whole thing to a text file first, then read in the text file and stuff that in the database, it includes a price. I'm doing something like this: 

my $price = "50";

my $htmlvar = "<li>The price is \$$price</li>";

my $sth = $dbh->prepare(qq{UPDATE database SET htmlvar=? WHERE ID=?});
$sth->execute($htmlvar, $ID) or die $dbh->errstr;
$sth->finish;

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What gets written to the dabase is: 

<li>The price is \$$price</li>

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How can I have the the database read this: 

<li>The price is $50<li>

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Thanks.

In reply to Using vars in a var by htmanning

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